We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

But life doesn't turn out the way you expect. Ever. - Iris from What Comes After

The Sabbath day of rest establishes the reality that God's people live by God's grace and not by their own labors.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Intuition is the compass of the soul.

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.