Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity...edit one more time!

Sales bring out the worst in people.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Good things happen when you go for it!

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.

Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.

Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.

Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

Resilience is about B.O.U.N.C.E-Bouncing forward includes bouncing back.

They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

It's hard for me to feel bad for myself because I'm doing what I love to do. I'm in a good position.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.