Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.

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.

Be the best person you can be for yourself and for everyone around you.

There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors

We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

The literary scene is filled with young people now, which is a great joy. They seem fully capable of saving the world, as we failed to do when young, though heaven knows we tried.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

Usually writers are behind the scenes. Like a lot of people don't know that the cat who created Final Destination is a brother, Jeffrey Reddick.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.