Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

Do not let your problems become a burden and interfere with your endless possibilities.

Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true.

If we don't chase our dreams then we will be ran over by our fears.

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.