You know where nice people end up? On welfare.

You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.

If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.

We're all hookers in one way or another.

Do your best and become as successful as you can because the more powerful you become, the smaller the other person gets, right? So it's like the bigger you are, the better you become, the less power other people have over you. The best thing to do is to always compete with yourself and not to compete with others.

Personal branding is about figuring who you are and what turns you on and then monetising it

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.