Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.

A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.

Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

A dream is unrehearsed.