As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.