If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.

The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

You can't find your voice if you don't use it.

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?

I am very happy with all my friends and co-workers, because if they don’t remember me in their happy times or in their success. However, they never forget me if they are in a problem or need my help…

I am at the gates of my own destruction.(Or so I'm told.)

You are not judged by your success, but rather, how you respond to your failures.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.