We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn’t leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.

A simple act of kindness the size of a rice grain can weigh as heavy as a mountain.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

If you give 99 percent, you will make my job very easy.

I wanted to fight to get into the front. I was just hungry to do it.

Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.

The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness.