The best among us are not more gifted than the rest. They just take small steps each day as they march towards their biggest life.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.

Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.

Give out what you most want to come back.

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

Blame is the creed of the disempowered.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Coffee is like a bra. 3 cups is one too many.

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize.

I am very sensitive to music, so I can quite easily allow myself to access that space in which I am completely taken over. And you can get quite a reaction out of the crowd when you do that.

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore