Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

Any time you think limitation it is not spiritual or god based,

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.

You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.

In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.

I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.

We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?