"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'"

"Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."

"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."

"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."

"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."