Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.

As a professor, millennials intrigued me. I see them as engagement ready - plug-n-play if you will. They want to contribute in the classroom, the workplace and to society.

We must treat others as if they matter, as if they are worthy of care and attention.

We should always be learning or we will cease to be able to change or adapt. I think the best work on leadership today is by Ronald Heifetz. His work is focused on adaptive leadership.

The people who care about us the most are the ones who are most likely to hold us back.

People who lack self-regulation are often invasive of others. They can be perceived as being controlling, antagonistic, or even subversive.

Sometimes we don't move forward because the people who love us the most unconsciously sabotage our efforts.

Friedman suggests self-differentiation is about knowing where you end and others begin.

Leadership transitions require us to move out of our comfort zone.

Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

I die a little everyday, in trying to revive what I lost yesterday!

To be adult is to be alone.

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

There are no athiests in foxholes.