Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

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.

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it

It is not the amount of money or natural resources a nation has that determines how civilized it would be.

Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.

Since we have been primed to think of the subconscious as a closet of monsters to be avoided, we tend to fear it. Thus, we avoid the unconscious storage room where the creative solution is hidden.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Both the Bush people and [Barack] Obama people had no problem working with the holdovers. They weren't out to get them.

It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.

[Adolf Hitler] was always intensely worried about security and people watching or being nosy, intruding on his private life.

Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.