Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

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

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

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.