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

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.

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.

Our trials are our greatest teachers, mentors and benefactors.

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.