While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

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.

Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go?" Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom.

Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.