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 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.

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

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

Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.

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

The solution to any problem is a positive attitude.

My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me.

My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

I weighed the pros and cons of both, and college outweighed the pro ranks at the time and I'm definitely glad I made the choice to come to Oregon State because I'm a better player for it.

In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.

While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.