We fall in love with someone when they show us, consistently, that they’re willing to put our needs ahead of their own.

The benefits of ownership center around security, privacy, and control. Right now, however, ownership is dramatically losing favor, while connection is becoming critically important.

A story needs a sense of oneness — unity — to feel like a satisfying and complete expression. It needs a single theme — a spine — something to unite it into a coherent work. But a story also needs a level of two-ness, a dimension of duality, to create tension and the possibility of movement.

In short, everything is a system. The universe, the world, San Francisco Bay, the office I’m sitting in... they’re all systems.

I never asked anyone to do more than I was willing to do, nor what I wasn't willing to do.

Increasing specialization has created a system of parallel trenches in the quest for innovation. Everyone is digging deeper into their own trench and rarely standing up to look in the next trench over, even though the solution to their problem happens to reside there.

There is some piece of your consciousness that has no shape, size, weight, or color. This is the piece of you that is of infinite value and dignity.

No reason is needed for loving.

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

The best way to start a new habit is to make it so easy that you can't say no.