To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.

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.

If you want to change the world, first change yourself.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.