Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Be confident but with a leashed ego.

Every sorrow and every pain is a good reminding to us to be serious because we are living in a dangerous universe!

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.

Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.

Pirates have always fascinated me.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.