The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

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.

Insecurities are like mosquitos, you try to get rid of them but they still come back.

Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.

Harmony would only come with destruction.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week.

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.