Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

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.

It takes one to tell, and two to missunderstand.

Let your heart sing from those wounded places.When you sing your song with everything you've got, it will not only heal you, but it will heal all of us through you.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.

Know that I'm chosen, one of the few/Staying on top - at least, one up on you

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.