The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.

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.

Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room.

The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.