Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.

Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've gotCould see all kinds of things other people could not!So then why get upset if somebody like meTries to look at the world just a bit differently?

When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.

I take same picture twice, First with my heart then camera.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'