Tom Schmidt

• Humility is mostly about being very honest about how much you owe to luck.

Everything you want comes at a cost. Travel comes with delays and lost baggage. Fame comes with haters. Kids come with wiping butts.

The sooner you learn to pay those taxes, gladly – the happier you will be.

Russian, we say, “Those who don’t take risks don’t drink champagne.”

• Every mistake is an opportunity to improvise.

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”

― Winston Churchill

Author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury on the difference between critics and creators:

"Those who don't build must burn."

"Once you've started, you're halfway there."

"To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don't recognize inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into.