Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

What gets measured gets managed.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

You never lose by giving it all to Jesus.

One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

Never compare yourself to beautiful girls.

If you're a Brit you kinda get used to people being cold and aloof and just generally arrogant - particularly musicians. (Compared to Londoners New Yorkers are a walk in the park!)