Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

Great work is always shunned at first.

The only purpose of starting is to finish

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.