If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try.

I am not given to making sense out of life — or coming up with some grand narrative on it — other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life.

Begin each day by telling yourself: today I shall meet with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness.

-- Marcus Aurelius

The trouble with people is that they love playing teacher to others.

-- Mencius

All life is problem solving.

-- Karl Popper

Those who move others can feel what others feel. But empathizers struggle themselves. Those who never struggle will never move anyone.

-- Sōichirō Honda

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.'

-- Mary Kay Ash

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

-- Anita Roddick