Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

The facts are in: diverse companies and teams consistently outperform all others. It's not only the smart thing and the right thing, it makes getting the job done much more interesting.

Growing up, I knew where the world ended. I could see it, at the horizon, where the sky touched the corn. My life was bounded and known. I *knew* the edges of the world. And then I went to college.

It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.

Clarity trumps all rules.

To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.

We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.

For me it's not a question of whether we should intrude in family life, but how and when.

A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it.

I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.

I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.

An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.