Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

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.

Without pain there is no future or any hope to get better in your life.

When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

I don't understand why some things are talked about and others are not. I don't know why I think I can make any kind of difference. All I know is that I want to.

Imperfections define perfection

I think if anybody is making a movie about your life something pretty incredible had to happen.

So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.