The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.

Gavin's Law: Live to start. Start to live.

It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.

Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.

START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust

Trust. And be trusted.

There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

If someone thinks your ideas, the dreams bubbling up inside of you, are stupid, welcome to the Club.

Dreams don’t get done until they are due.

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel

So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.