I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.

People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

My friend named his car. And I don't want to be judgemental, but... what a dork.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.

It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.