True nobility is to exercise power as a servant to all and master of none.

Change begins with ‘one person’ who so inspires others that they themselves can do nothing other than change. And no matter the dismal state of the world or the gravity of the situation, don’t ever think for a moment that that ‘one person’ is not you.

To lead is to serve. Conversely, to serve is to lead. And if either of these elements are removed from the equation, we’ll soon find that we’re doing neither.

To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

A true leader never has to put his ‘big boy pants on’ because he’s never taken them off.

The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.

A ‘good’ leader recognizes that they have been granted the uncommon experience of leading common men. A ‘great’ leader recognizes that of all men, they are likely the most common.

I don’t think that there are many true leaders. For a true leader possesses both the seasoned acumen and the utterly fearless temperament to slice through the boggy agendas and the cumbersome biases that lesser people have come to justify as wholly good and impeachably righteous simply because these lesser things have become the whole of their calling. And no true leader would ever lead himself or anyone else to such a pitiful place as that.

To be strong I must first admit that I am weak. And that requires some of the greatest strength imaginable.