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

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.

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.

As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I’m expecting a miracle. Don’t taint it with logic.

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs