Say what you believe and see who follows.

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.

Set backs and failures are the major motivations in life.Some are so painful that don't kill maybe that's why they make me strong, immune and a reason to fight with myself.

Commit to excellence, whatever you do. It will bring joy, happiness, and success for you.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic composers, and his forte was really a fortissimo!

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

I want the other riches in life; I want to get married.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.