What are they afraid of? — What are your audience’s pain points and how can you alleviate them? One of the most important questions of all.

Who’s the work for?

What’s it for?

What is the worldview of the audience you’re seeking to reach?

What story will you tell? Is it true?

What change are you seeking to make?

How will it change your status?

How will you reach the early adopters/neophiliacs?

Where’s the network effect that will propel this forward?

I feel undressed if I don't have my pearls on. My pearls are my security blanket.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.

I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly.

I'm very peculiar looking.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You dont lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

Everyone needs to take that time to figure out who they are. The fact that there's no love interests in 'Moana' - it's all about her - is very relatable. You don't need another person to help you find yourself.

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities.

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance fortitude prudence justice brotherly love relief and truth but liberty equality and fraternity and it denounces ignorance superstition bigotry lust tyranny and despotism.

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

Food simply isn't important to me.

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.

All I can go on is my own value system.

Come in the gym like you’re going to war.

If I don't go to the gym and work out, I look like a bag of bones. I go three times a week usually and it's nearly all weights work to help with definition.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

More and more companies are updating their leave policies to reflect an understanding that being family-friendly is a smart investment in their workforce and America's future.