For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.

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.

But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently.

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.