A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Some day I shall be President.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.