The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.

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.

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.

You're perfect. In all you say. In all you do. In all you are. You're perfect to me in every way.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.