Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

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 are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe.

God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

I've always been pretty confident. I grew up in a family of strong women, so I was always taught to be proud of who I am, the way I am.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.