Shame must be accepted to be effective.

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!

What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

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