Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

Follow your dreams and make them happen!

If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished