At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

Your life moves to a better place when you move at a sustainable pace

The people you listen to are a preview of the future you.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.

Listen more than you talk.

Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.

Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.

Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

I'm kind of a huge movie buff and a video game nerd person.

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.