The best thing a company can do for the communities in which it operates is to have a vibrant and sustainable business.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything?

I don't think it will ever be too late for her, that she still holds out hope that one day he'll see what he left for never replaced what he gave up.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

A girl never knows when she might need a couple of diamonds at 10 o'clock in the morning.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.