I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.
You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
