Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.