Time and Chance

There are plenty of mistakes you can quietly go about fixing yourself. But when your error involves a promise or expectation given to someone…

Adultery is more like trying to get your summer tan in a single sunscreenless day at the beach.

An hour later, lost and mudstained, you wonder how you got there in the first place. You don’t remember ever making a decision…it just…

The violent man is like a dragon sleeping on his horde of treasure—never able to use it, and never happy about it.

Most of the time, living with integrity turns out pretty well. Usually, illegal arms dealers do not live long, blissful lives, surrounded by beloved…

We do not naturally possess wisdom. Left to your own devices, you are not in good hands. There is something inside us that is…

The longer you live as a C-Suite executive, the harder it is to empathize with the lifestyle and motivations of an hourly worker.

The beginning of wisdom is to know that you don’t know.

You can rage yourself into exhaustion or whisper a warning, but the performance you can expect will always depend on the standards you enforce.

Appearances are deceiving. What is concealed is eventually revealed, and your sum total will be a loss of trust.