Passion is the genesis of genius

Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up.

“As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!” 

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” 

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.” 

“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.” 

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.

Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

There is no failure unless one stops. Not to work is to cease, tighten up, become nervous and therefore destructive of the creative process.

Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. 

Apprentice yourself in failure.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

“Passion is momentary; love is enduring.”

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person

The first step to becoming is to will it.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway

“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”