And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done.

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.

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

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

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals... they will be destroying you.