Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.

Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.

Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.

Why do many souls love darkness than the light?

When we shift from trying to figure it out to feeling our way, insight arrives.

You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

The only Christian work is good work, well done

Don't worry about the game you just won or the team that we just blew out... or, um... blown... blowed out... Let's think about what we need to do going forward, and they had, uh... blown out.

Cajun stomp?" "You heard me, swamper. And keep your hands to yourself.

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.