There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

Never opt for change simply to leave something you don't like. Change works best when you go toward something, even if it is the unknown.

Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?

I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.