People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.

If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.

It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.