Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.

What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.

Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.

Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.