I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.