First we love within, then we love the world.
You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are
We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.
While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world.
People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.
Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low. ' We want it to read that we changed the world.
We are not going to succeed because Taliban are masters of guerrilla warfare
Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.
Worn out places, worn out faces.
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution