We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

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.

If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.