I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.

I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

Cry as much as you want to, but make sure when you're finished, you never cry for the same reason again

Mind sees magic because it can be deceived when allowed by heart.

Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.

I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it.

I prefer periods of peace and love.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body