I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.

The Highest Reward for men and women 's devotion and dedication to excellence is not what one gets from it but what one he or she becomes through it.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.

The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.