Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

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.

To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you

They who laugh the hardest are the same ones who have fought the toughest.The winner, though fraught with scarsstands alone, wholly victorious.

I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people.

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.