Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.

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.

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

There is no need to worry about where you currently stand in life, if you are constantly pushing yourself to see how far you can go.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

You need to say and do the right things and good things happen to good people.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Life is meant for living.. I know that sounds simplistic, but how many days do you let slip by without really doing something, accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle change?

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.