Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
This guy from L. A. sits down next to me, and he says "you like baseball?" I said, "Oh, man, I love baseball. " So he goes "Did you know that if Jesus had played ball, he'd have been the greatest ball player ever?" Like I'm gonna argue with that logic. So I sat there for a second, and then I said "did you know that if Babe Ruth had been the Messiah, the Catholics would have beer and hot dogs at Communion?" He left.
Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal.
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like. . . I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.