When we are gone, the only essential thing we will leave behind are the memories we create in the lives of those we have touched and those we love.

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.

If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don't have a clear vision, no strategy will save you.

You lose your way when you lose your why.

Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.

A goal is not just about what you accomplish. It’s about what you become.

You can't fail if you don't quit. You can't succeed if you don't start.

Leaders have the privilege and responsibility of going first. The most powerful way that anybody can lead is by example.

Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.