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!

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.

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

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.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.

'Grease' is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.