It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

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.

If you have confident, courage and strength, you can succeed in life.

Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive And that’s what makes the calm sea alive

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.

My toughest opponent has always been me.

Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.