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

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.

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!

Wynn picked up the note, unfolded it, and read aloud. "'Call Wynnie-the-Pooh. Out of salt. Important. Dig on Coleman, Garvey/CG Towers, Uncle Griffin. Paris. Bank for box.

The cure for grief is motion.

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.

Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.

To whom much is given, much is required.