“The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect.”

The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.

The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it.

Part of the true luxury of “earned laziness” are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy.

It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the “pecking order” of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, “See, I’ve done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power.

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

It’s the Tiger Woods effect. What he was able to accomplish at such a young age – he drew me to the game, and I can only speak for myself, but a lot of the players that are my age saw Tiger in his prime when we were all teenagers.

The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.

The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.