Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Humor is a great way to relieve stress.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.