. . . our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or simply place an order at a restaurant, every interaction makes a difference.

What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.

Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

There's no way to be a Christian at home by yourself.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

I've got libraries in my blood.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

My wife has a keen sense of humor. The more I humor her, the better.

Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me.

Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation.

Anytime you start getting a real tangible relationship with something that's been blown up to a legendary status, you just realize that every part of it is just people getting ahead.