The first day, week and month of an employees experience carries a lasting impression.

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Trust leads to approachability and open communications.

Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

Enlighten yourself

If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part, ' or, 'I want to play guitar.'

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.

Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.