You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

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.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.

Once you are dressed there may be still more you can do to enhance, complement, or complete your look. Simply changing your accessories will change your entire impression.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

Life should be lived on the edge of life.