A good collection is more than just the sum of its parts.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Once you do a joke and it works it's only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel.

Being rejected from something good just means that Allah is pointing you to something better

Life isn't all diamonds and rose... but it should be.

Life is never free of contradictions

And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.