More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.

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.

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word.

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.

And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.