You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.

You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.