Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects, to show that she is only His image.Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Teach managers formally what the leadership standard is, and set the expectation that they will need to adjust their behaviors to meet it.

Life is what a business is about, and life is what this work is about.

Junior leaders must be empowered to make decisions and take initiative to accomplish the mission. That was critical to our success on the battlefield.

In other words, which of our efforts are value-creating and which are wasteful? This question is at the heart of the lean manufacturing revolution; it is the first question any lean manufacturing adherent is trained to ask. Learning to see waste and then systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries.

You believe someone not because you have no doubts about them. Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don’t have enough doubts about them.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Weigh advice against the counsel of our convictions. Deliberate without being paralyzed.

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

It’s impossible to get to know people deeply and not come to like them.