"I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart."

"I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience."

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

"More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself."

"Bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay."

"We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right."

"Bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."