“Start before you're ready.”

“Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart.”

“The song were composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.”

“At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself. (If I were part of a team, Id call a team meeting.) I ask myself, again, of the project: What is this damn thing a...”

“A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.”

“No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. Thats why they call it rewriting.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy. The only problem is that happiness isn't logical.”

“You are the cause of your suffering. That means that you alone have the power to change it.”