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

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.

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.

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.

I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.

When you change your thinking, you change the world.

Twitter is a vessel that we can use to share #positivity to others through our timeline one tweet at a time.

At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.

I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a 'waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

I think we need a big national dance.

My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.