The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

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.

Engaging spirits isn’t an elitist ability or industry, it’s being active in the connection with All Things. It’s innate to us all.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total fricking rock star from Mars...

Insecurity kills all that is beautiful.

I don't like to take my clothes off.

All your nights can't be food nights though

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.