Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.

Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.

Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it?