It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.
What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.
The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.
When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.
Words may inspire but only action creates change.
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.
Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish.
My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.