Seek authenticity in your leadership through your life experiences

Choosing to live and love with our whole hearts is an act of defiance. You’re going to confuse, piss off, and terrify lots of people—including yourself… You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time. At least that’s how I feel most of the time…brave, afraid, and very, very alive.

These examples demonstrate that the sole missing ingredients required to sustain food production in large areas of the Americas were domestic animals and crops themselves.

The U.S. military will only succeed, in other words, if it has a decisive technological advantage.

Stress is not 'something we impose on ourselves.' It is something imposed on you.

Realization of our oneness in Christ is the only cure for human loneliness. For me, too, it is the only ultimate meaning of life, the only thing that gives meaning and purpose to every life.

In the postmodern universe, everything is relative, and moral values are the most relative of all.

You just have to try it: learn, succeed, fail, learn, adjust, repeat. Rhythm and routine, rhythm and routine, rhythm and routine . . .

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

The lack of any of the five A’s feels like a gap in our psyches, a hole, a deficiency. Yet each unfulfilled A is more than a hole. If we stay with the pain of the emptiness, it opens a spacious chamber in our psyche.