“It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don’t know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.”

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back.

No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.

When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: ‘I don’t think I can. I don’t think I will.’… To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.

Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure – like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?