The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.

Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered, he or she will develop moral authority. If the follower is principle centered, he or she will follow the leader. In this sense, both leaders and followers are followers. Why? They follow truth. They follow natural law. They follow principles. They follow a common, agreed-upon vision. They share values. They grow to trust one another.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.