Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.

We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air We rise from one ocean And we live under one sky

Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?

People can learn a lot from one another if their need to be right falls away.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

It is up to us not to bury that potential we have.

The U.S. can no longer be the sheriff for the whole world. We can't be everywhere, and we can't always use military boots on the ground. We have to plan with people who have boots on the ground.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.