Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.

Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.

Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.

By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.

Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.

Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose.

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.