Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Understand that nothing happensunless it is God's will anddo what you like.What can be simpler than that?

What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Sin is a revolt against God.

That’s rich, coming from you, Hellcat, I would’ve thought it was impossible for a Vampire to get grey hairs until I met you! (Alexander)

and just like that, I shut off the switch to my brain.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.