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

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.

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

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.

It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints

Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

I dislike both of [candidates] but there's obviously no choice in the election - if you're concerned about the future of anything, you need to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them

When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.