“With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand”

Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, “I am the good one,” it doesn’t work.

Love isn’t supposed to torment you. If it does, there’s probably something wrong.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.

When you’re buying a pair of TOMS, if you don’t feel like you’re part of a community, then I’ve failed.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Vogue Magazine does something really interesting here: They make it look like I know exactly what I’m doing. Because Vogue made it look like I knew exactly what I’m doing, stores from all over started calling.

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, […] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else’s.

When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, ‘Well, that’s their problem.’ But it’s not. … When you solve somebody else’s problem, you’re solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.

Always remember, believe in today, believe in tomorrow, believe in yourself, and whatever happens, don’t jump.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn’t have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

It’s just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn’t know how to get started today.

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can’t even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.