People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.

I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves.

That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.

I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like

You don't have to have a great gift for God to use it in a great way.

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.