How to prepare someone for leadership:I do it.I do it and you watch.You do it and I watch.You do it.You do it and someone else watches.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.

The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

We all have our own little thing, I think.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.