Sublime

MELINDA GATES Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

As Marianne Williamson said in her mega bestseller A Return to Love, “Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.”

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

ROBERT F. SMITH Founder and CEO, Vista Equity Partners; Philanthropist

Have you ever heard of Sonia Sotomayor? She’s a big-name judge in America, associate justice of the Supreme Court, and she put it perfectly: “Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than an inspiration; his o

Gertrude taught me that the power of money is really derived from the intention we give it and the integrity with which we direct it into the world.

The real magic of Brave Thinking requires one more step: Becoming.

Oppie had an almost uncanny way of appearing at crucial moments in the complex process.