Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

What got you here won't get you there.

To help others develop, start with yourself.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

When we do what we have to do we are compliant. When we do what we choose to do we are committed.

Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.

The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.

We are the universe seeking truth.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

Everything in my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in the walls, in the four-poster bed, especially in that music box.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

I've never been a bad boy.

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.