Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

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

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Before dance came into my life, I don't really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

Home: The place to save society.