The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.