At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever.

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.So the question is: Have you ever done that?

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!

Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

If there is no fun in it, something is wrong with all you are doing.

She is mine, and I am hers.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.