What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.

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.

pse.The Scars come before the Stars.

It hadn't escaped her notice that when she let him believe the worst of her, still he vowed to stand beside her and work toward forgiveness.

Love and loneliness, they are both coincidences.

I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he’d never let her see how close she’d come to unseating a champion