The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.

The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

Life is too short and hell is too hot to just play church.

I flew into sky, yet I could not leave home. I wanted to stay while I wanted to go.

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He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.

Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I enjoy writing.