Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

Roses are red, Violettes are bllue, Valentines day is consumerous crap, now don't you have ironing to do"Unlikely thing to read in a valentines day card

Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.