Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company's leadership and dedicated employees.

I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.

I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward.

Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you; then create within your reality the things that you desire.

Be so busy competing with your old self until you start to see no reason to ever compete with others.

We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone.

To hope is a long run but hopelessness is wrongdoing to your soul.

Someday without any reason dance in frenzy in total let go.

A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.