It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.