If it's important you'll find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse.

Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.

Until you have enough money accumulated, sacrifice luxury. Sacrifice TV, time out, and even time with your family and friends.

Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.

The only difference between you today and a year from now are the people you know and what you have learned.

Potential is the one power you always have.

Don’t let anyone steal your milk.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses. It's a remote mentorship because I've never met him.

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge.

All these mirrorscarnival distortionsof selves we never were.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.

I'm not against Twitter or Facebook. I'm not against anything. Never say never.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.

I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.