“This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along—you want there to be some room for it to fit in.”

“Always keep your mind open. In all things, always keep your mind open. Everything is possible. Especially things you know nothing about.”

“Even people you hate deserve opinions. And sometimes they’re going to have better ideas than yours. Keep an open mind to everyone.”

“You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it’s disruptive to the old way.”

“You follow your feelings, you follow your dreams;
You follow the leader into the trees.
And what's in there waiting, neither one of us knows.
You gotta keep one eye open the further you go.”

“Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.”

“There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see
that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that.”

“You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.”

“Sometimes you hear the idea that the ego is so corrupt that anything it tries to do is going to be corrupted as well. That idea closes off all the doors except for one: the hope that somebody is going to come along and save you. But that hope is irresponsible. The responsible attitude is that you’re responsible for the actions of your mind. You really can choose. And fortunately your motives are not always corrupt. As the Buddha said, you can take advantage of the fact that you want true happiness, and develop some noble qualities out of that. The qualities of purity, compassion, and wisdom come from taking your desire for true happiness seriously.”

“Sunlight comes into your house not because you want it. It happens because you open the windows.”