When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.

This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

Trust doesn't mean that you trust that someone won't screw up— it means you trust them even when they do screw up.

The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure—to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn’t strike terror into your employees’ hearts.

The roller coaster came to a stop and a good friend got off, but what a ride we'd taken together. It had been one hell of a trip.

God doesn’t call us to comfort

Half awake and almost dead. But yet we were breathing and yet we were waiting...Waiting for a miracle to happen.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

How am I supposed to move forward in life when everything important to me is motionless?

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.