Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

Nobody wins until we all do.

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.

Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.

Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

It takes people some time to appreciate that their greater resources are often the people they know.

My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".

I Would Force Myself Edge Of The Life, To Know Its Really Worthy Being Alive.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.

We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.