If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

What gets measured gets managed.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws

You're too sweet for your own damn good.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

God is a scientist, not a magician.

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

There is no problem a library card can't solve.