Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.

If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

Burnout is not the result of doing too much

You were designed to survive in your own world

Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

Did you see Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards? I don't want to say that that performance was a disaster, but after the show, I saw Rudy Giuliani having his picture taken standing on her.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed We have not truly known the Spring.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.