Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.