Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small).

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so you'll just be sitting in your room dreaming, but if you're only holding onto the crap jobs that keep you just above of the water you're going to be unhappy. You're going to be burnt out, washed out.

All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.