Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

Enchantment is the purest form of sales

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.