Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Life is too serious and precious for it to be left to chance. You have to make it your project to discover your purpose in life. You have to be intentional about it.

If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is a misfortune " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.