When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

You shouldn't spend all your time worrying about the love that leaves, because then you might overlook the love that was always there.

Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.

If you make your own path in this thing we call life, you will forever know that it was yours and not someone else's.

It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.

I guess the internet and the power of people finding things out for themselves is great.

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.