Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

Twitter is a global town square.

Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

As you get ready to walk out under the bright lights of the improvisational stage of the rest of your life... be bold. Don't always worry about what your next line is going to be.

The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

Naturally have a belief that you can make a difference and you will make it unknowingly.

If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.

I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.

Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain. Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.