If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

I hear them say "Why do I miss someone I haven't even met?"How about not missing someone because it feels like they've been with you all along?

In reading we must become creators.

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

I tried not to get too addicted to reading the Whedonesque website, because it could become obsessive. They were a charming and loyal bunch of people to whom I'm eternally grateful.

We will have no jobs if we have no planet.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is 'objective,' all else is propaganda.

I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.