You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey.

A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.

Do what you say you will do.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?

Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

Did you ever try to sleep sober?

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

Ensure everyone knows what success is and what their role is in achieving it.

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to

And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.

The big problem is that people don't believe a revolution is possible, and it is not possible precisely because they do not believe it is possible.