Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.

There is no check-box for ethical leadership. It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey. We will never know everything that there is to know.

In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially “grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.

Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

At its best, leadership development is not an “event.” It’s a capacity-building endeavor. It’s a process of human growth and development.

If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

Ability without honor is useless.

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.