Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.

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

Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.

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.