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

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.

When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are not going to go very far as a group. By ourselves, we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.