The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.

If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

Even if you know where you are going and what problems you have to solve, you may only know the nearest tasks and you may not understand completely all of your tasks

If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.

Outside, the afternoon sun was an orange sliver on an icy horizon.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

I have learned to accept the fact that I will make mistakes at nearly every turn, but that those mistakes can be softened if I am honest about who I am to my girls.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Put out great music, and that's that

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.