Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'