Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

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.

I knew you didn't love me, but I dangerously adored you anyways.

You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Art simply can’t be stopped.

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

Many many external circumstances are outside of your control, but will affect the outcome, and you have to be OK with that.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.