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

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.

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

Unless someone has lived your life, no one can live your dream!

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Better a live dog than a dead lion.

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.