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.

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.

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.

Dreams don’t get done until they are due.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last.

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.