Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn’t leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

If you can compete, you are going to compete

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.

In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

The obscurest epoch is to-day.