Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

Let your projects be independent organisms. They will develop their own beautiful architecture.

Because, when everything else is gone, all we're left with is our imaginations.

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

Just keep believing. This is an opportunity where great things can happen and lets be great right now.