The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.

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.

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth— but of even greater importance is God’s Word, the Bible.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

If I breathe, what will my heart think?If I vomit, what will my soul think?

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.