Build pockets of stillness into your life.

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

Everyone has their heaven.

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will.

Music is the only art that actually lives.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

[Yasuhiro] Yamashita is a respected judo master not only in Japan but across the world. To me, he is an example of an outstanding athlete and a very good man.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

I know I have this image but in reality, if you take all my records, I had to use five or six [tracks].