It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

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

It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.

In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.

We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.