The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Art = Passionate = Stupid- (BackStrom Season 1 episode 11)

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

I have no affectation when I speak

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.