It's time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future?

Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other’s backs — no matter what — so that everyone comes out future strong.

If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.

If you want to lead others into a strong future: You need to be keenly aware of how your own inner truths — biases, fears, courage, values and dreams — do or do not impact the daily work of others.

If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeatthat’s the real you.

Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same.

Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.

Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.

Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds.

Working for a company must help individuals achieve their dreams and goals more efficiently and effectively than they could achieve them elsewhere.

Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.

While winners were fully engaged with writing some great chapters in their lives, failures were busy trying to edit their past negative experiences.

Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?

We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.

Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

The Lord shapes the back to bear the burden placed upon it.