Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.

You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed

I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

And it is a strange thing about love... it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In communism inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

You cannot innovate by copying.

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

Attitude creates your world and designs your destiny.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will.