Good is the enemy of great.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

Everything in the universe is nothing but consciousness. Which makes us all ONE!

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

I think just the music industry sometimes is a very tough business. But still, if it's just something you just love dearly, you really can't just put it down.