Don't do anything that someone else can do.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, " said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.

People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.