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

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.

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.

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

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

To watch a movie in 3D when it's not really planned in 3D is disturbing sometimes.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.