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.

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.

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.

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

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.

God use times of adversity to revive the spirit of every man.

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

If we're serious about America's leadership in the world, then we need to make sure that we have the back of the armed forces.

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

I think it would be a threat [Donald's Trump presidency] to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the world at large.