For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

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.

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

All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.

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.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.