YOU are the next big thing.

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.

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins.

The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience