Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4. 25 an hour are hard to resist.
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
I don't think leaders are born. Well, they're born; everybody's born, but I think leadership can be enhanced, they can be developed, and I think that it's important we do that, particularly with our youngsters.
As a leader you have to recognize that it all starts with you: your attitude, your commitment, your caring, your passion.
Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.
The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.
My approach is that we are not searching for experiences here. We are trying to know the one who experiences all experiences. Our search is for the witness. Who is this observer? Who is this consciousness? Sometimes it feels sad, sometimes it feels happy; sometimes it is so high, flying in the sky, and sometimes so down. Who is this watcher of all these games? - high and low, happy, unhappy, in heaven and hell. Who is this watcher? To know this watcher is to know God. And you are already it - just a little awakening is needed. . . no search but only awakening.
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.
We have 11 million people in this country that need a pathway to citizenship.