Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.

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.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

Perhaps I shifted from "me" to "we" when I realized that "I" could get a lot more done with "us."

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.