Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.

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.

You live on. You never die. You live on in the hearts of people whose life you have impacted.

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.

It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of #‎ collaboration .

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.