You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

The time we are living in has its own conditions, peculiarities and standards

The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.

Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

You can't put out projects that you don't use yourself.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.