Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

Your vision is a glimpse of your purpose and a picture of your larger dream.

The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...

Thinking can change through the pronunciation of the word of God in your life, because it contains enough strength and energy to change your sub-consciousness

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings, thousands since January 1st [2016]. Is this a war-torn country? What are we doing? And we have to stop the violence.

It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.

Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.