The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

I won't do one-sided if my life depended on it.

I LOVE homeschooling and want others who have been led to do it to love it, too.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

I don't care if I don't act anymore.

I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.