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.

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.