My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his.
Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.
Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.
The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other.
The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.