Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

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.

Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

Significance is not determined by the amount of time on stage but by what you do with the time you get.

I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care to have breakfast with.

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.

A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.