The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

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.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

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

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