Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?

Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.