Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.

He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.