American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser's excuse.

Inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest.

In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

The more we give, the more we receive. It's important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.

Never duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river.

Money doesn't change who you are; it magnifies who you really are.

I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.

MOM - noun - One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy and sanity for LOVE!

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.