People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

You really don´t need followers to prove that you´re not a leader.

It's a special form of scholarly neurosis, ´ said Camel. 'He's no longer able to distinguish between life and literature.´

I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.