Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

Less is more, especially in relationships. You must understand and appreciate the importance of quality in relationships over quantity.

I may be lost, but I'm traveling the right way.

The surest poison is time.

It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.

John Lithgow was absolutely wonderful in 'Dexter,' there's no doubt about it.

Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.