Stop making excuses; you're the only one stopping you.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.