The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.

Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

The ‘deep pause’ needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a ‘deep pause’ to be deeply wasteful.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did it without any ego involved and that you did it for somebody else. That's the best you can do.