If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

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.

Write when you least feel like it, Because that's when you write best.

You are only free when you can grow wings of wisdom to fly away from the cage of societal conformity.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.

It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.