The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

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.

Then I guess we have a problem…because this man, Luhan Kane, is under arrest by decree of the Elders’ Circle. My authority outweighs yours.

His fingers caressed the column of my tense throat. I shivered in fear. I hated not being able to see what was happening, it forced me to feel everything.

Cheat, defeat, repeat.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

I'm a worldly angel, meaning I've adjusted to the ways of the world, even though I am a child of God. I wouldn't consider myself a Christian rapper, but if we were Christian rappers, we would kill.

I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought.

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.