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

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.

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

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.

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.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any.

Elsewhere is within

Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

I always get scared doing a job. To this day, I start every job thinking, I really can't do this. And what I do when I'm insecure is I tighten up. If you work through the night you can do anything.

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

So much to say, yet no words would ever be enough.