The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our 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.

He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

At the end, [Eva Braun] begged me to spare these letters [to Adolf Hitler] and bury them. She specifically wrote to me and told me over the phone not to read any of the letters, she made me promise.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.

When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government.