I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

You are already the awakeness that you seek!

His true nature, leopard, knight, and prince…“Just as you see the Wyr in me, I see the Djinn in you.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong able alert men go after opportunity.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

If you win power, remember why you wanted it.

Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.