If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.

Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

My friends are happy for me, and that's all that matters.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.