You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

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.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

Young people who were relaxed about posting every detail of their life on Facebook become a lot less relaxed when they realise just how transparent their life has become to future employers.

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

People always covet what they themselves do not possess.