The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.

I come here because it is fun. I have fun when I come here. I do not come here because I feel that I have any great responsibility for your beings or welfare. Who am I to set myself against the innate wisdom of your own individual being, or to take upon my invisible shoulders the great privilege or joyful responsibility for your behavior and destiny?

Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.