“The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.”

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.

Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.

The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It’s just as hard. It doesn’t get easier, but that’s why I love it: because it’s a challenge every time.

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. Meet, challenge and ultimately prevail over your nafs with your heart. Knowing your ego will lead you to the knowledge of God.

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It’s just as hard; it doesn’t get easier, but that’s why I love it: because it’s a challenge every time. I also feel like I’m learning new ways.

Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.