Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

When you are 70% sure, act /because the other 30% is reserved for hope /which is doubt turned upside-down.

Living by faith, living by hope.

No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.

some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.

I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.