Don’t let the horrible nature of the waters prevent you from crossing the rivers of life. The more horrible the challenges we face, the sweeter the joy of conquering them.

When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you. A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.

Leaders don’t leave people empty handed. They give them part of themselves through knowledge sharing and influence creation.

You don’t miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face.

You can’t give what you don’t have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them!

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.

A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

Leaders create awareness in their followers about the great potentials they carry and how to release them for the benefit of all. Leaders are motivators,

Leaders don’t step on toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of giants.

When motivation flows, people see work as interesting as music. They enjoy it till they do more than they could have done. Leaders motivate people to do greater things.

In the same way that the best lies have an element of truth, maybe evil is made all the more powerful when it is accompanied by the startling presence of grace.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

I'm not the kind of person that likes to be dependent.

Being a square keeps you from going around in circles.

Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others.