Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?
Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.
I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.
Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.
Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.
The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
