Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.

If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

The most precious contribution we can make here on Earth is to create the lives we want to be living, communicating in all ways, to everyone around us, that success is really possible.

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us

Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.