At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.

If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.

Ask yourself before making a decision

And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.

Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

I find Mormons adorable.