It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

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.

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.

Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.