Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

Twitter is a global town square.

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

As you get ready to walk out under the bright lights of the improvisational stage of the rest of your life... be bold. Don't always worry about what your next line is going to be.

The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

We are all creative beings. The act of creating puts us in direct connection with the greatest creator. The master artist that is our Divine Creator.

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

I just learn from other people. And I try to get strengths from other people and the things they do, the things they can overcome in their lives.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.