If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

Waiters are the help, dear. It's like falling in love with a blender!

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.

We redheads are a minority, we tend to notice each other - you know, and notice our identity

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

I don't think I really do go shopping. Somehow clothes just kind of end up in my closet. I do not like shopping; I'm not into it.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.