Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

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

Great work is always shunned at first.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.