Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.

When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.

It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission–which is emotional connection.

Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice.

The world of comic book collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes.

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.