Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

Its easy to fall for someone that will find humor in every situation.

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'

The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.

Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself?

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.