It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.

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.

Jeese, I thought, fear choking me. I was being targeted by a ‘tangoed’ psychopath!

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

People always tell me I'm too modest, and that I'm allowed to tell myself now and then that I'm good at something. Well okay then, the bathroom is very (beautiful) clean right now.