Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.

When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.