I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

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.

Some people will only value what they HAVE when it becomes what they HAD

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

I never really got into any records purely thinking of them as a breakup record. I mean, honestly, for me, listening to a breakup record whilst dealing with one seems counterproductive!

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?