Control your own destiny or someone else will.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Be candid with everyone.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

They had lied, those who had extolled the virtues of love—its pleasures, its sublimity—those who had told her that it was beautiful and worthwhile.There was nothing beautiful abo

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

Programming is all about numbers.

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.