There's nothing more exciting than ideas.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.

Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Grief loves the hollow

I find it boring and a waste of time debating other people’s opinions, however challenging my own is always intriguing and there is where I inevitably discover growth.

Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary.

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.

The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure.

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.