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

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.

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.

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.

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.

What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

He unclenched his fists and dropped her worries, unable to catch them for her. But she picked them back up and dusted them off. She wants to be able to hold them herself now.

LOVE – PEACE – SUCCESS: When they are what we desire, they fuel our hope… When they are seen in our behavior, they change our lives.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot but make it hot by striking.

For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.