Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.

Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.