We tend to think that what matters is decided by society or culture or religion or our peers, but no one can say what truly matters except us.

When we give ourselves permission to go wherever our outlandish thoughts take us, we feel that rush of creativity and excitement.

Whether the changes that are coming in your life will be unexpected or determined by your choices and actions, the wheels are in motion. The adventure has just begun.

When you find your passion, turn a deaf ear to the naysayers and follow your dreams.

Spend one more day in pursuit of art that only you can produce, and somewhere, someone is envying your courage to do just that.

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

I've realized I don't need to keep looking for my path. I'm already on it. I just need to trust where it leads.

As artists, it is our job to question the rules and ask if they are relevant or outdated, necessary or arbitrary, helpful or oppressive.

If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning.

It's ever so fun and fulfilling to be clever, but more lasting and effective to be consistent.

Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most.

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.

Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life

If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don't know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

...when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.