Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.