Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

When a heart has set a course, let it navigate the laughter in failure and generosity in overcoming crisis. Love weaves lives and distills.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Heather is the first interviewer to have ever caught me off guard. She has a razor sharp mind and a demeanor that could make her the next Barbara Walters.

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.