“You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.”

My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006

That’s when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you’re awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn’t let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

Speak the language of the person you want to become.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

I’m not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.

We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.

Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived.

As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

In moments of uncertainty…i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

Losing dad (Bobby Bonds) was the worst thing in the world.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing…

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it’s losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.

The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don’t know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I’ve been in danger of losing.