Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

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.

BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice...

[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

Because things are not agreeable, " said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach enlightenment.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

In a town full of phonies, I'm not afraid to be me.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.