You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.

You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

If it was up to me, I’d choose the hard path with the easy ending, not the easy path with the hard end.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.