Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

I was born a sheep & I cannot be a goat through pledge of hands.

The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.

Halloween's my favorite holiday because you don't have to spend it with your family.

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you're not identified with the story unfolding there.

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

It is useless work that darkens the heart.