Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

When you know my love, my love will warm you.

Six Stars, ' he exclaimed. 'Finding the right words is hard!

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.

Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil, with the victory of God over the devil.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.