Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

Learn to lead yourself before you lead others; you can't lead others not knowing how to lead yourself

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

Some mistakes can be corrected and learned; others are decidedly fatal. Think carefully if the latter are worth the risk.

When your words and actions are contradictory your sincerity is untrustworthy.