Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope.

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Make it like a sunflower.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.

Just because you're beautiful they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.

I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

I think that just talking about what guys shouldn’t do, we got to also make sure that you can do your part to do whatever you can do to make, to try to make sure it doesn’t happen.