Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Power is the recognition of necessity.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

Will I become a coach in the future? No way. I'd never be able to put up with someone like me.

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.