Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

I no longer feel banished from myself.

My heart is like an open highway...people come and go and sometimes they are just beside you and you dont know

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.