Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

It is staggering how completely, fully and fairly life supports you if your negativity will allow the blessings to arrive.

A compliment is a gift not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

I made a resolution in 2010 to stop drinking Diet Coke, and I haven't had Diet Coke since then. I think it was the best life change I've ever made, because I drank quite a lot of it.

We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

I'm not where I'm supposed to be, I'm not what I want to be, But I'm not what I used to be. I haven't learned how to arrive; I've just learned how to keep going

You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.