Competent people are the most resistant to change

Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.

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

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.

How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.