We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them

Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

Just like the notion of "Internet natives", who have never known a world without Internet access, we, who have lived our entire lives with video games, can be known as "video game natives.

What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.

Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.