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.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

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