If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

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.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.