Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.

Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.

Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going.

A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.

If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new

Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and that's what social skills are

There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.

The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus.

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.

With faith in God, we can walk through the fires unharmed.

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

Cynicism can be funny. But it's the easy way. You'll forget to enjoy anything. I try to make the evolving choice, the forward-moving, life-giving choice. Just keep living, man.

New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy.

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.