Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Did my good deed for the day. Still not close to heaven, but it's something.

All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

Our debt to our men and women in uniform is eternal, always will be. To all of those who have served our nation, I say so strongly that I will never, ever let you down.

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.