Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

What would you suggest?” one of the Italian officials asked.“We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator, ” Joseph chimed in

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

You can't unscramble eggs.

The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ’s. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.

I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.