It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

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

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

Live your dream and never wake up

When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on

There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure.