There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.

If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.

You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.

Make work a purpose, not just a place.

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.

It’s not right that some people have so much and others have so little.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.