The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe.

If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.