If you get invited to be part of a team, don't look at it as a burden to get out of, but rather an opportunity to inspire, invigorate, and bring life to the team.

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

God is only as strong as your belief in him.

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

It's hard to say what iconically will hit, resonate and stay with people.

Once you have met a true human being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.