If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves.

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

I'm an Aries. I need everybody to like me.

Remain true to the earth.

Social media has allowed people to ramp up their personal attacks on people in the public eye - because there is a sense they can do it anonymously.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.