How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.
I've always wanted to make an impact.
It makes me happy to know that I've been able to impact people's lives.
All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.
That's what it's all about at the end of the day. What can you do? What difference can you make in the world?
I want to make an impact.
To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.
There's always an opportunity to make a difference
The tremendous honor of playing on the world stage is even more rewarding when I am able to use my accomplishments to help others.
If I change people's lives, that's all that matters to me.
You can have an impact anywhere you are.
Whatever I do, I want to impact people's lives in a positive way.
I don't want to look up and think, 'Wow, I had a moment to really be a part of changing the world, and I didn't live up to it.'
All of us want to know that we are doing great things, that we are touching a lot of people, and that what we are doing is something bigger than ourselves.
I want to really change people's lives with what I do for a living.
I just want to do something meaningful in the world. I want to contribute positively. That means the roles I get to play as well.
It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.
If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
Whatever I want to do, I want to make a difference.
I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.
I don't want to be forgotten or not have helped as many people as I can before I pass.
The Last Arrow transcends a moment or an issue. It is a call to move beyond self-indulgence to a life of sacrificial service. In The Last Arrow I address a broad spectrum of issues from the Syrian refugee crisis to the cultural epidemic of depression to the personal struggle of insignificance. The Last Arrow is a clarion call to make a difference in the world rather than a self-help book for personal self-improvement.
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
