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

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.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.