Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.