As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, "Oh, see, it doesn't work."

What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.