Don’t just stand there; make something happen.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Do you ever get a panicky feeling that nobody cares if you live or die? (A husband will often care decisively, one way or another.)

I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three.

The grace of God cannot be quarantined to individuals.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

I don't have sociopathic tendencies!

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.