Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.

Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

Discern the vital few from the trivial Many.

Done right, a strategic intent is really one decision that makes 1,000 decisions.

I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble—everything seems important—so of course nothing is.

Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

I think we’ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice—a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.

The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

Pain, sometimes, is like Love. It grows, until it becomes your Life.

The road to success is built up as you travel, its blue print never exists.

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

I definitely think anything I’d be in now is a permanent relationship.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

A day to God is a thousand years, Men walk around with a thousand fears. The true joy of love brings a thousand tears, In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

Global governance need not take a democratic form.