If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers.

As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

A hard practicing period yields a lifelong victory

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

Do not live in the future, only the present is real

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.

God is working on your problem. Stay calm. Stay sweet. Stay out of fear and keep on keeping on.