Wealth won’t make you happy. Power won’t make you remarkable. Fame won’t make you honorable. Education won’t make you wise.

If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.

Stars are born out of dark moments.

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise.