I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.

I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it

I don't really know [who my favorite vampire is]. I always think, 'Ethan Hawke in Interview with a Vampire,' and someone will say, 'He's not the vampire. He's the interviewer.'

Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.