We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

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

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.

the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if the question is, who is to blame?, perhaps each will want to place the blame on someone else, or on the other hand, someone may try to shield his fellow-worker. In either case the attempt is to hide the error and if this is done the error cannot be corrected.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.