You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Well, you can’t have just some of me, Jai,” I told her. “You appreciate the part of me that didn’t get angry because two ‘things’ we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don’t repair things if they still do what they’re supposed to do. The cars still work. Let’s just drive ’em.