I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d'if, william smithback could escape from river oaks

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.

Successful people fail their way to the top!

If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.

On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.