Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which one to be on determines success or failure, joy or despair.

In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you.

You brain does its best when it is doing a task it can do well. That's basic brain science.

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

All connections matter, but the people you depend upon matter most.

It is the greatest feeling in the world. When we shine, we defy death for the moment. We enter into a state of immersion in the craft we ply, a state in which we become one with what we do.

No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World I've been on TV and had three TV series.

But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.