It’s not about being loved by people. It’s about loving them enough to do the right thing for them even though they may hate you for it.

The person next to you is probably doing the best they can. But if they’re not, try doing the best you can to help them do the best they can.

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

Love other people first, and you will have loved yourself best.

Yes, there are times when the world turns upside down, logic becomes subject to the muse of reckless interpretation, truth becomes the bed-child of selfish goals, and people are off on a wild course that bludgeons everyone they once loved or anyone who gets in the way of what they now purport to love.

There’s something vulnerable about the human condition, where people can transmute into something so astonishingly altered that whatever is left is wholly unrecognizable.

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

The essence of true leadership is our willingness to leave wherever we might be in order to meet people wherever they happen to be.

I have found that in meeting people where they are at, we are taking ourselves from where we have lived out our days to where we can now live out our lives.