In the world of start-ups, it's really important to build a community and a following around the product and service that you're offering.

So I sent about 999,999 emails and I got about 3 yeses

Those adults that were in addiction now once were children, but now I turn my back on those same people, just because they're older? I don't think that any of those folks chose their heredity, nor their childhood trauma.

When my hands are dirty, when my schedule's messed up, when I'm helping someone else...I'm surprised, sometimes by how crazy my life can be, and it's hard. But because we're really working for each other, and it's not just for me, it's not just for my gain...it's really strong.

People who need help in addiction look just like everyone who is sitting here.

Those relationships—if you deny someone opportunity, they lose those relationships. I think it's super important that we recognize that.

Jobs are critical, but the relationships that we gain in the jobs that we have are huge. Do you recognize how many of your closest friends you met at work? Can you imagine? I bet over half of you would be happy to leave your job now, if you could take all of your friends with you at work...we cultivate so many wonderful relationships that are so integral to who we are, and what we become, at work.

To be an American means fighting for your rights.

Civic engagement is one of the most American things you can do. It utilizes your experience. It utilizes the freedom that you have to speak on anything. It utilizes a democracy because somebody has to listen to you.

It took a lot of self-reflecting as I became an adult to think about my life, to think about some of the things that had happened, and to see that it was truly an American story. It was rising up and working and being scrappy and being hungry and trying to get educated, and more: things that Americans have been engaged with since the founding of this country.

Something’s only a taboo if we choose not to talk about it.

Use your passion to solve a problem and bring awareness to it.

Every bit of time spent to love on someone makes a difference.

Michelle Bazis: “When I restarted my thinking and stopped being afraid of making mistakes, discomfort or the unknown, I was able to pursue my creative passions and experiences without limitations.”

Sometimes the hard path is the path to success in your own heart, in your own soul, and in your own mind. It doesn't have to be easy, it just has to be good.

Většina lidí bývá do 55 naštvaná na svoje rodiče.

To make a decision feels violent. You have to get out of here [your head] and just go a direction and make a choice.

The worrying is the opposite of the doing, and the doing is what we have to focus on.

There’s not a right path—it’s just where you are right now.

What keeps you stuck?

Commitment is not a track. It’s not a railroad. You don’t put yourself on the track and just plow forward ‘til you have a career.

Commitment is not a straight line.

If you want to practice honesty, then it’s wise to remember the truth is not just a portrait but a landscape.

Fear isolates us; bravery connects us.

Bravery: it means accepting responsibility for the impact of our actions and the weight of our words.