Employees who are not engaged have untapped potential that sours like a perishable item.

When a person is engaged, dedication to their craft, desire to achieve, and relentless commitment to make a difference is palpable. You can see it, hear it, and feel it…and it is contagious!

Vanity does not pay the bills.

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show.

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.