While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society; every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

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.

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.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.