Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

There’s no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.

Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.

I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.

To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

We may not be interested in chaos but chaos is interested in us

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.