Bad leadership is an oxymoron.

Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

Education is the best wealth that you can acquire in life. No one can steal it when you are alive.

Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.

This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

People want to go where they wanted to be led.

If I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Routine is the death to heroism.

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.