As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

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.

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me.

And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.