Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

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.

Your eyes are my stars of happiness.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory.

We mock the things we are to be.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Treat each class as if it were your first.