Sutures of lightning tightened the edges of the sky.

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.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Piper and Hazel were ready to go, but first Annabeth turned to Percy, who was leaning on the starboard rail, gazing over the bay. Annabeth took his hand. “What are you going to do while we’re go

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

There were plenty of times some writers would make some kind of stupid joke to each other and then it was on TV that night or that week.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

Beyoncé is musically why I do what I do. She's an inspiration, she's incredible. I just love her.