Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

The day you become humble is the day you become successful.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Think so big, so audacious that people will think you are crazy.

Success is not how much money you have in a bank. Success is how many lives you have touched.

Stay focused on the mission.

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Arguing with one's self is beneficial.Out of all the million voices in my head screaming for your death, you're lucky I heeded the one that wants to spare you this time.

Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels, or very boring people.

Media has the ability to make good seem evil and evil seem good.

Knowledge is not necessary for obedience, nor doth information replace faith. El hast commanded. We shall obey

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.