The best way to honor someone who has said something smart and useful is to say something back that is smart and useful. The other way to honor them is to go do something with what you learned.

Try is the opposite of hiding.

Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.

Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission–which is emotional connection.

Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs