Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

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 universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.

Be the patience you seek

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

I recreate myself; that is my only power.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.