Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

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.

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

I have a vision, I have a will.So I own my life and I control my future

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.