“Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.”

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

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.

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…

Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

A scientist’s life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.