The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn’t leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.

And we are made different. On the instant. What we know, what we were, is banished by that instant, razed like a castle under siege, and nothing is recognizable is left. The world is unmade.

The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.