Crystal clear roles characterize high performance teams. Every team member is clear about his or her particular role as well as those of the other team members.

Without purpose, the days would have ended, as such days always end, in disintegration.

Faith has two main parts: one is vision and one is desire, or will. Vision is seeing reality as it is, or in the case of the future, as it could be for us. Desire is wanting reality to be as it is, or as we hope it could be.

If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued. If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.

I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.

Many times people back away from things they want to do, from the dreams they have nurtured, because they cannot envision a clear way to bring those goals to reality. Mama lived by the saying "You must walk by faith and not by sight." She believed that if you summon the courage to go after your dream, life will provide the answers.