There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

I live to eat - when someone else cooks for me.