Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.

Every woman is distinctly beautiful because every woman has a motherly instinct.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.

An angel has no memory.

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!

I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.