Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

When we squander the moments of our lives, Peter, we are spending the most valuable currency.

Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.