Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

There is always beauty to be found, even in the darkness.

Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

It's important not to take anything for granted.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.