Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

Keep strong the bond of love.

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.

Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

Angry people cannot create a peaceful planet

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..." speech, he would answer 'ask not.'