My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.

Having a whole bunch of women doesn't make you a man, being faithful to one woman does.

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature: trees, flowers, grass grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Our goals can be reached with a plan in which we must believe, and upon which we must vigorously act!

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorised.

Twitter makes you love people you've never met and Facebook makes you hate people you actually know.

Nobody ever talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodil. - hoping it will eat him last.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

A dream is a compelling vision you see in your heart thats too big to accomplish without others help.

We know they’re lying, they know they’re lying, they know that we know they’re lying, we also know that they know that we know they’re lying, but they STILL LIE.

The people who invented the Internet never would have got around to doing it if they’d had the Internet.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else much matters in life.

Think less. Do more.

So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? Own it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives a superficial appearance of being right.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.