It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.

Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.

We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.