We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

Men marry. Women wed.

Live to avoid all the numerous field mines of life.

You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.

If you have ever typed 'sorry not sorry' I hope you die... not sorry.

I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, "This is Beam Me Up." Then to my right. "And this is Scotty." Garret chuckled and buried his face in his hands. He asked.

Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.

You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of words.