I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.
Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office