A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

And your green eyes are the color of the hills- the color of my home.' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'Aye, there's something about you, Lindsey Waters.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.