Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

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.

Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

The days of hair tonics have long since passed.

It's a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties - P. Diddy, Diddy Puff. But he was super nice to me. And he does look sharp, that guy. Doesn't ever go wrong with a suit.

The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.

When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything.

If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order.

I want to ride in a cold air balloon. "This isn't going anywhere!"

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.