Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

If you don't have a rainbow to give. Give a smile. It works just the same.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

In America, we're not making anything anymore. China and other countries are making our products. We are rebuilding China.

Some things are best mended by a break.

When adults wage war, children perish.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me