Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
Eric WeinerGod is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called โhuman grace.โ Somewhere along the way, weโve lost sight of this.
Eric WeinerThere's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
Eric WeinerYou look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.
Eric Weiner