I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company's leadership and dedicated employees.

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.

I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

try not just to become a person of success but rather a person of value.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

Tape record your parents' laughter

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

When you think you're going through hell, keep going. The only way out, keep going. If you're going through hell you've got to keep going. You can't stop or that's where you're gonna end up.