Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL

A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

INTENTIONS - ACTION = SQUAT

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

Give me the power to produce fever and I’ll cure all disease.

I don’t think there’s enough of her left.

No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.