When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

Who you are, what your values are, what you stand forthey are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.

An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

You have to live the mission... love what you do.

Remember it is good to build and bad to destroy

The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by God Himself.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch

I did deranged quite well, when the occasion called for it.

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

'Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint balls that stick to your clothes in the dryer.