motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

You don't have to have to be rich like Oprah Winfrey or Rihanna to make a difference in somebody's life-To some people ten dollars feels like ten million dollars

The strength of a patent doesn’t come from its claims, it comes from the invention

She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.

The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

I put my heart, soul and tears into the game and this is what I get. I don't know what to do. My wife can't sleep at night. I hold my daughter all night. I am ashamed I played cricket.

Theres not a lot out there, and what is out there has to be really interesting to make me want to leave my life, which is really precious to me.

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

I think people watch TV to escape from life.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.