If you don’t know what your barriers are, it’s impossible to figure out how to tear them down.

Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.

Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.

Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.

Truthfulness is the golden thread that binds good lives, good relationships, and our very legacy.

Scout out competitors’ websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.

Approach the goal you’ve set with a positive, grateful attitude, and your perception about the goal and the journey will feel less like work, and more like fun.

The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results.

Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.

Go a little easy on the people around you. Try to reel in judging thoughts. Think before you speak.

I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? Too much, too fast.

Time falls on us, like rain, it falls like rain until we drown in it, and sometimes, it's like the drains overflow, and time just - pools up, it seeps, it gathers in the corners.

There's this magical sense of possibility that stretches like a bridge between June and August. A sense that anything can happen.

Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.

What we're seeking to do is become transparent. A transparent window on reality. But that takes time to do. We're starting with a very solid, objectified view of ourselves and existence

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.