If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.