We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.

My library is an archive of longings.

When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.

If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.