Russell Simmons

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Pick people who are interested in what you're interested in.

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them.