If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.

Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.

Enemies make better allies than frenemies.

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

I just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

A Warrior never accepts what is unacceptable.

Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.

My kids were completely out of control, while I was working fifteen hours a day plus weekends. I screamed a lot, something I'm not particularly proud of, but it was that or firearms.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.