The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

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.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

My music should evoke a feeling; whether it's a feeling in your stomach, goosebumps, whatever. When you don't get a feeling then there's a problem.

One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.