If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

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.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

Don't let dialog about your company happen without your perspective.

Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...'

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.