... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.