The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

Enchantment is the purest form of sales

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

All charming people have something to conceal usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how stupid it is.

If you date, you will meet your share of weirdos and jerks. That is as sure as death and taxes.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

If you're someone from the government and you meet people from other countries, you want to know who you're dealing with. It's the same for them [in Valerian].

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.