It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes.

If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they'll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

Coach (Bear) Bryant wanted to see who was tough in the spring, who he could count on in the fall.

We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.

A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.