People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.