It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything.

A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.

Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.

If you're the smartest person in the room, it can sometimes be hard to learn to delegate - the person to whom you're delegating will do the task worse than you would - and it will annoy you!

As a leader, it is often better to ask the right questions and listen than to have all the answers.

The better strategy is to focus on strengths and surround yourself with people who can complement your skills. However, you have to first do the analysis.

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

The study of scriptures is a weapon of war.

Life is magical for a lover.

It is in the deconstruction of ourselves that we begin to build our lives.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.

When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.