If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

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.

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

Stop the nurse like the monkey.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.