Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

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.

What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

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