Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility.

We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and helps us to matter more in the lives of others.

Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification.

Authenticity is a continual process of building self-awareness, a journey through which we acknowledge both our strengths and our limitations, and come to identify a noble purpose.

With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self—our own unique noble purpose.

We have a fundamental imperative in our lives to matter to others, to serve others, and to support each other in mattering more.

Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.

Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Don't do to someone else what you wouldn't want done to you.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.