The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

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.

Turns out rolling your eyes in a bar when ‘Land Down Under’ plays is like someone belching during the Star Spangled Banner in America.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

I don't even want to go back to '81.

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.