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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two.

When I got a little older I was obsessed Lil Wayne. But then it was just as many British rappers - Dizzee Rascal I would always listen to.