Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people.

I'm literally online all day long, and if I don't get back to everyone, I'll stay up all night.

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

What drives me is truly inspiring people to realize they can live more creative and simple lives.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

The truth is never pretty.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

I like making mini-movies rather than just three-minute, place-the-champagne-here-for-sponsorship videos.

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.