In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

It's hard enough to be alive and human, without the additional burden of being me.

I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.