There’s no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.

I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.

To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.