Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.

Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing

Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.

Design your site so it looks professional

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School.

You are not responsible for everyone's happiness.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people.

All men desire to be immortal.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.