We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.'

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.

Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Poetry to me is prayer.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.

There shall be no Alps.

Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.