Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.