There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.