The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.

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.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

I would love to win an Oscar.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.