Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

Mowing your lawn is against nature.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.