In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.

The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.

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.