The balanced life is a goal, but for us it is mostly a myth.

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.

May I live to see the day when I long for the agony I feel now. /ながらへば またこのごろや しのばれむ 憂しと見し世ぞ いまは恋しき

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.

Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.