You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

When trust improves, the mood improves.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

I should like to know what sacrifices they make. I think it's the children who make the sacrifices. When I want to eat gooseberries and am not allowed to, the sacrifice is _mine_ not _Mother's_.

Excellence is a high quality, that delivers success and achievement.

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica.

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?