A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

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.

One of the favors life can do on you is to keep you busy.

Time management is about life management.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

We see ourselves as yesterday and today. Heavenly Father sees us as forever.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.