It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

He had a powerful kind of ache inside of him, half joy, half terrible sadness.

Imagination is a storm of emotions that has the power to sweep citadels into the wind.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.

He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.

There's never been a parent in my life.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.