It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

I just don't believe that you can't make anything happen. I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

I can do anything - but that doesn't mean I should do that. I need to enjoy what I do. I enjoy making movies.

Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.

Freedom is saying I want to do this Not that

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

Trust your passion, identify your dreams, and find the courage to share them with others, no matter how many times they call you a fool.

[D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable.

I transform fiction into memory.

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.

My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.

I'm a blue Powerade man myself.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.