I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.