"An idea meritocracy is a system that brings together smart people and smart concepts."

"He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass."

"Great collaboration feels like playing jazz."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him."