The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

We get to choose how we're going to live - what level of energy, what level of vibrancy, what level of excitement.

When you read, " the man whispered, "you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.

Maybe things that we turn our backs to arnt rlly there, but its true that they will be there when we turn back around.

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

My greatest asset now is my focus.

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.