Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

When you win big, that is the time your true character will show.

I get to go to work and FaceTime my friends and family and go, "Hey, I'm just showing you around my spaceship!" It's great to be able to do that. I'm having a ball!

Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

In order to have a good hand, it must be light, gentle, and firm.

Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

I believe God will make a way.

I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.