More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

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.

I've found that people reveal nothing of their true selves except within their art and their sin." ~ Dacey Sinnett, 'ROAM

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.

Those who work much do not work hard.

I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

The turtle couldn't help us.

Love has no place for idealization.