The past does not stay where we leave it. It is waiting for us.

The true test of character comes from whether we can stay principled when pressure urges us to abandon ourselves.

You don’t stay the same person for long. The trouble begins when you try to.

Redemption begins when we earn our way back through the choices that restore our faith in ourselves.

Not all anxiety is harmful to us. In fact, the right anxiety can be beneficial in our lives.

Our beliefs about ability can define us, and limit us. We need to loosen the jacket of certainty about ourselves, allowing room to become.

The question we wrestle with most is not why we are here, but what happens next.

The Olympics continue to move us because they give us intimate portrayals of struggle we can celebrate. Even if they’re strangers.

The people who help us retain our dignity are not always the people we would have chosen.

Reinvention doesn’t have to look impressive or even successful to matter. Sometimes the meaning is found in the work itself.

Sound has a way of reaching the body before the mind has caught up, making what we cannot see impossible to ignore.

We survive by making predictions, but we live better when we remain humble enough to remember how often they fail.

Humour is a vital response to reality, and we laugh because it’s one of the few ways we can face what doesn’t make sense.

Modern media conditions our attention, rewards our impulses, and changes how we respond to reality.

Events may seem sudden and random, but the conditions behind them are often long-standing and dug in.

A culture that gives young people less freedom and more comparison teaches them to mistake achievement for worth.

Building something great is hard enough. Staying great when the world inevitably changes is another race entirely.

Power becomes dangerous when people start believing their own judgement is a higher law.

To commit our time to one thing is to make it unavailable to everything else.

Once we begin removing difficult words and images from public view, we also begin deciding what others are allowed to understand.