Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.

If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don't have a clear vision, no strategy will save you.

You lose your way when you lose your why.

Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.

A goal is not just about what you accomplish. It’s about what you become.

You can't fail if you don't quit. You can't succeed if you don't start.

Leaders have the privilege and responsibility of going first. The most powerful way that anybody can lead is by example.

Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am grieved for my children—and boy’s in particular—that this modern age is emasculating men under the guise of “the best interest of the children”.

Today in May 1938, the world around us suffers from the anxiety which the unemployment of millions brings with it. In Germany we begin to be anxious because we have not enough workmen.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.

You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.

I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation