Only do the thing we are best at doing and enjoy most.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

We went to Austria to train and it was so peaceful. And I love coffee and the coffee was great.

The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.

When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

If money is the only plus, I will always say no. But, if there's more, than I'm down.

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.