If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

Always deliver more than expected.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.

Each of us has our destination and target, but when we ignore it, we are used for purposes other than for what we were actually intended

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

We can't fear change...we must embrace it. Sometimes you have to walk on water.