Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.

You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.