But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.

Put your weird in your work!

Go have fun and make money

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf.

It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

Not everyone wants to be sexy everyday, wearing tight dresses and spanx.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!” Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.