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.

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.

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

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

the leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living.

We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

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