The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!

For every success, there is a system

The best thought any writer ever come up with is of having a world with Dragons.

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

I love putting the music together. It's like art

There are three kinda men in the world. There's men that own rope, men that use eye creme, and that dude from Nickleback.

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.

Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.