Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Nothing like the gift of living in the present.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

Karate begins and ends with courtesy.

Marriage has just never interested me.

Our response to an offense determines our future.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.