Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

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.

Too many decisions are made based on satisfying ego.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

I am not your justification for existence.

Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.

I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?