I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

I looked up and she said, "You have to believe I did everything a reasonable person would do. Maybe I didn't reach my hands into toilet water, but I did everything else I could.

Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

The cold never bothered me anyway.

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.