Exemplary leaders know that you need to see the world through others' eyes and make sure that you consider alternative viewpoints.

The other decisive change, which triggered a second population explosion, began around 400 B.C. with the arrival of a new lifestyle (and people?) from South Korea.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

Your goodness as a person isn’t based on how much you give in relationships, and it isn’t selfish to set limits on people who keep on taking. Your job is to take care of yourself, regardless of what others think you should be doing for them.

People have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

Seven False Hopes of Software Management: Other managers get gains of 100, 200 percent or more. – Response: Forget it.

Diversity might involve ethnicity or physical abilities. But it’s just as likely to involve idiosyncratic approaches and differences in experience. If enough peculiar people get together, something new is going to happen.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

A person who has matured through her own experience cannot be tricked with fascinating, incomprehensible words.