It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL

A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

Whatever you do, do it as a master, not as a slave.

I don't care to be pretty, " Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.

I see my father. I see him gone away. My world is a little bit colder.

I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter

Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.