The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

A crisis + time = humor.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Sacred greetings!

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

Thanks for all the birthday love! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world today!

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

The greatest of the great make others better.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.