One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.