Leaders must attend to one key growth question: How authentically am I showing up in the world and my organization?

Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees.

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

I assure you, princess, if you saw the real me, you’d run for cover. (Zarek) Only if I knew you’d be waiting under that cover for me. (Astrid)

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!