The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.