Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

There is no check-box for ethical leadership. It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey. We will never know everything that there is to know.

In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially “grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.

Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.

At its best, leadership development is not an “event.” It’s a capacity-building endeavor. It’s a process of human growth and development.

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

The guest is always right - even if we have to throw him out.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.