The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to it's limited in voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Try to be surprised by something every day.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.