When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

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

It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.

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

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.

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