"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success."

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

"We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us."

"If there is no gardener there is no garden."

"Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves."

"Seek first to understand, and then to be understood."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

"Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come."

"Security is a process, not a product."

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law"

"He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion."

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards"