You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.

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.

Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom.

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever.

Harry Potter mustn't be angry... Dobby hoped... if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten him... Harry Potter might not want to go back to school, sir...

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.