Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

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.

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

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.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

Fools "Sell Out" Where Angels Fear to Tread

Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions. Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

Nobody knows the political system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.