We live in an extraordinary time

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

When trust improves, the mood improves.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.