Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

Bad leadership is an oxymoron.

Everyone needs a place to be honest.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

There can always be new beginnings... even for people like us.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.