Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.

Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.

We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God's goodness, but with sin that mirror fractured and the reflection is distorted.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.

Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.