Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.

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.

Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that take them to heart, and some who take them to soul.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.