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

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.

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.

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern

...I learn about the sacred in the everyday - I look in your face...

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

Neutrality is not politics.

We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.

God finds himself by creating.

You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.

I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.