The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

To have a style is to be stuck.

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.

Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.

Each person is a speck of consciousness that is attempting to awaken and return to its point of origin, to the source. That is life’s true journey and story.

The world needs a revolution led by women.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.