Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.

Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.

Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

All truly great art is propaganda.

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

Every sentence is the result of a long probation.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.