Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.

No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.

Only through becoming aware of yourself and your limitations can you be transparent with others.

Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.

Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.

Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.

Technical expertise is only a tiny portion of what it takes to be a successful employee and, particularly, a successful leader.

One thing they do not teach you in college is what you will actually be doing in a career of your choosing.

A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.

Attitude, not ability, determines destiny

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities.