Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight for their place in the sun, and critics of both liberal conservative persuasion.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

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