When you connect with people, they want to help you.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.

And he nipped them in the bud, right at the end

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people.

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.