It takes people some time to appreciate that their greater resources are often the people they know.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer. ... I had before only sensed intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.

Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

People who succeed speak well of themselves to themselves.

A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.