Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

A diary means yes indeed.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

There is no single way to educate.

Only the present moment contains life.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.