If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

We think that we all have to like each other before we trust each other and that necessarily is not the case.

When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.

Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.