Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.

If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.