I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

To be able to make a living, I went into television. Not necessarily planned from the beginning, since I was more familiar with features, and had developed a few scripts.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Ronald Reagan said "trust, but verify." President [Barack] Obama is "trust, but vilify." He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him.

Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave... gets over it.

Spiritual matters should be private.