People check their phone an average of 110x a day.

95% of millennials say their friends are the most credible source of product information.

If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

The goal is not to be good at social media, the goal is to be good at business because of social media.

Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

Social media is an ingredient, not an entree.

The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.

Focus On How To Be Social, Not On How To Do Social.

Social media doesn’t create negativity, it uncovers it.

The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to the success of business today.

If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!

When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a new place.