People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

The limit of impossible lies possibility.

When a dog runs at you whistle for him.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

The world's history is the world's judgment.

I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.