Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

If honor were reserved only for those who never err, none of us would be worthy, " Rain answered.

The stars here and the ones there are each special for their own reason. You grew up looking at these, while I looked at mine. Now we’ve both looked at each of them together.

But that is another story.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday.

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.

A good song receives love forever.

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.