Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.

Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.

. . . our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or simply place an order at a restaurant, every interaction makes a difference.

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

I wouldn't call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.

I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.

The head is not more native to the heart.