Our society has become an employee society.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

What gets measured gets managed.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.

Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

Service of God consists in what we do to our neighbor.

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

God warns before he wounds.

Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate it, to embrace it fully, and to embrace all the different cycles within it.