... that ultimate success in community leadership will only be achieved if it stimulates participation by others who are also to be seen as in their own way leaders and not merely helpers.

The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.

Leadership in its best sense has never been about the pre-determined role cast on some to lead others.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.

What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

I just thought, there are very few stories involving me, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jesus.

A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.