Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.

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.