Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.

A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.