administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.

I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out.

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.