Great Leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience

You need to train yourself to be comfortable with silence, particularly when dealing with cultures that respect silence more than we do in the West.

Essential to time-management is a change in focus, a change from being ‘busy’ to a focus on outcomes

But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time, " as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

You must go to the extreme to find out who you are, but sometimes, you never go back.

One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.