If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

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.

It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented.

As I bathe myselfI pray with all beingsthat we can purify body and mindand clean ourselves inside and out.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

Any desire to grow is following the flow of love

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

True love is a process. True love requires personal action.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.