People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

Theater was such a different school of acting. But it really is a foundation of everything. It's where it all started! And I feel like I learned so much.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.