If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

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.

He tastes like salted caramel and sunshine. Or what I think salted caramel and sunshine taste like. He tastes like nothing I've ever experienced, like hope and possibility and future

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

I just love chickens.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.