Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.

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.

Love is the light and source of life, and happiness is the delight and essence of life.

Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.

The only shame is to have none.

He was Will, in all his perfect imperfection; Will, whose heart was as easy to break as it was carefully guarded; Will, who loved not wisely but entirely and with everything he had.

Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious.

Lack of industry is an attitude.

Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!