If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.

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've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.

Climate change is like my head: it’s not visible in every instance, but I’m pretty darn sure it’s there.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

I love people who have died trying to save wildlife. When I see that passion, that gives me hope.

you never forget your first fall.

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.