Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.

Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.

We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.