Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

People are motivated by fear, but they are not inspired by it. Everything that inspires us comes from love.

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved organizations, we must each be the first to start the journey.

Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye, tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.

They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

Even the poor should give something to charity.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.