Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

You are a great sacred soul.

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.

This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

Basic reality seems to be that the more you try to be like God by radiating unlimited love, the more you become flooded by waves of love from others and from God.

The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.