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

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.

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

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

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Perseverance is one of the keys to overcome the adverse circumstances of life.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

You won't ever be totally gotten by any human. That's part of the fun.

Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough

Time to the face the music.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.