Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.

Marie Ray

If you worry about your reputation you don't deserve to have one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Edwin H. Friedman

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

Mason Cooley

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

Buddha