If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Great, numbskull. Just bloody great. You've already managed to piss off the Queen. What's next on your agenda, setting fire to Disneyland?

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.