People do business with people they know and like

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

To build authentic relationships you need to lead with generosity & serve them first

You have to envision yourself winning to win.

In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.

When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.

I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

There are worse prisons than words.

I wanted to stand on the kind of holy ground that wasn't curated by church professionals, where a burning bush could blaze forth in defiance of safety regulations and outside of regular office hours.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us.

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.