A better model of leadership means more effective leadership and better business results.

Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.

Leaders set the agenda for the future.

Once a good model gets inside you, it can inform and guide you throughout a lifetime.

Transformation is an acquired taste—not for the faint of heart.

When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.

Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.

When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized.

Great leaders create great cultures regardless of the dominant culture in the organization.

Leaders set the context and create the conditions in which individuals and organizations thrive.

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.

The more things change the more they remain the same.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!

The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.