It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

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.

Do you like him much?' I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.' Is he?' All boys are.

It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

True influence drives action, not just awareness.

When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.

Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.

I have a philosophy, folks, and it's based on my own life. I'm using my own life experiences to philosophize about things in general. It has to do with desire.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.