Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.

There are people who are very resourceful At being remorseful And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends.

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you.