When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Be candid with everyone.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Focus on beauty, not on feardance with stress to let it clear

We are all special cases.

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.

If you spend a lot of time shopping for athletic clothes, you may want to consider spending less time thinking about high school.

Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting.

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.