Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.

When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine Michelangelo living five centuries ago, painting, sculpting, and writing. Imagine he is telling you that you can create whatever you desire, and the great danger is not in having too much hope, but in reaching what you have perceived as hopeless.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way.

It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire.

The way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.