Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

The more I love nature the least I'm afraid to die. I wouldn't mind being a part of the trees and the place that makes everything possible.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

I'm addicted to exercise. I love going to the gym, but my absolute favorite is hiking in L.A., particularly Runyon Canyon. It's become my mental and physical salvation.

Swords and knives make me feel vulnerable.

If you're an artist who's built on marketing and hype then most likely I won't listen to you.

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence.