People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.

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.

Just a little loving kindness is sometimes all anyone really needs.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.

The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries, but the new continent was to be the home and temple of the living God.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

I'm gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well