As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

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.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

What is life if not joy?

Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.