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.

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.

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.

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

If you have a vision and there is no job title for it yet. That's a vision right there!

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.