My father builds homes. So I grew up around the idea that you can take a piece of land, and you can bulldozer it and build new homes on it. You can create something new.

Pacing is really important in an organization.

I really appreciate it when people say "no" to me. I want people to understand that I'm totally supportive of what it is they're trying to do as long as we're all on the same team.

I trust people, and I respect their areas of responsibility.

I think that's just one type of leadership, which is the type I have: the need to find a new way and take responsibility for other people.

I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible.

Most people's greatest regret is not living the life they knew they could live.

Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice." Rinpoche

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.