Time is the scarcest resource.

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.

Think outside the square. Think for yourself don't just follow the herd. Think multidisciplinary! Problems by definition, cross many academic disciplines.

We aren’t only called to become Christians

A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

We want his power more than his purity.

I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.