The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

What other goal could there be, then finding one's self within God and God within one's very Self? For as we know God, we also are known.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

There's no way to move without making waves.