"Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending."

"Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team."

"Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best."

"If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it."

"The art of living is discovering that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that the ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."