You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

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.

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

I will do anything. Anything, Blaire, just to be near you. I can’t think about anything else. I can’t focus on anything. So never think you’re inconveniencing me. You need me, I’m there.

Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.

Vanity is but the surface.

My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.

Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb... at gunpoint, if necessary.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.