Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

Any CEO who cannot clearly articulate the intangible assets of his brand and understand its connection to customers, is in trouble.

One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.

Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.