Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.

Your life moves to a better place when you move at a sustainable pace

The people you listen to are a preview of the future you.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.

Listen more than you talk.

Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.

Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.

A small positive thought can bring a magical change to the world.

The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one

Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

Experiment is the sole source of truth.

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.