“I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you’re doing”

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

People want what’s best for them, and they can switch on a dime, because there’s always a new disruptor disrupting the last disruptor. So companies should just strive to keep changing and adapting to their customers’ needs.

Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.

Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.