Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

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.

it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you've failed with.

You are not on earth to simply make a living for yourself that is too small a purpose.

I give the fight up let there be an end A privacy an obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten even by God.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.

Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.