There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

What gets measured gets managed.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

In every heart a waterfall of love is primed to shower the world.

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.

I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic.

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing

You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose.