Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

Apparently Super Max was pretty content with taking care of half the town, such was his wonderfulness.

A door must either be shut or open.

It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.