“Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality.”

“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”

“Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.”

“How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?”

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.”

“I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why...”

“The worlds most successful people didnt wait for someone else to pick them, but instead, they picked themselves.”

“Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.”

“Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldnt rely on it, because its not guaranteed and its not permane...”

“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”

“My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.”

“Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”