Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.

When a leader keeps personal ego in check it builds the confidence and self-esteem of others.

The key is selecting the right people to join the team, those with the right skills and values, those who embrace our purpose.

Getting your ego out of the way has an even deeper organizational impact.

To serve the many, you first serve the few.

One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.

The leader turns the pyramid onto its head in order to serve others.

Appreciating what I have is my medicine.

I just don't want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.