"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth."

"Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper."

"An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame."

"Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'."

"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."

"The greatest power is not money power, but political power."

"In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded."