Gavin's Law: Live to start. Start to live.

It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.

Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.

The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.

START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust

Trust. And be trusted.

There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

If someone thinks your ideas, the dreams bubbling up inside of you, are stupid, welcome to the Club.

Dreams don’t get done until they are due.

Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.

Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.