“Creativity is a renewable resource.”

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.

I’d like to have younger people around me and that I’ll be involved with them a lot more now, as opposed to me being the main focal point.

I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.

I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

Creativity comes from constraint.

The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let’s give away a Kindle to everyone.

Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.

So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

Embrace your constraints.

It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.

Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.

I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it’s sharing your creativity with people. There’s no ambition to be famous. I couldn’t care less about that.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

I love getting into people’s brains and understanding the creative impetus for something.

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep at night you know you couldn’t have lived your day with more courage, creativity, and giving.

Today I fulfill my creative side. I want to bloom wherever I am planted!

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life’s work.