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.

An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

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

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 certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

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