Bad leaders make you feel bad about yourself. Good leaders make you feel good about them. The best leaders make you feel good about yourself. The great leaders are like the best conductors — they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

I often tell students that It is very important in life to be able to distinguish between the headlines and the trend lines. If the trend lines are bad, all the happy headlines in the world won't make things come out well. And if the trend lines are not as bad as the headlines, you should wake up every morning full of optimism and be content with the trend lines until the headlines catch up.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. To fulfill one's duty elevates the soul to a state of constant sweetness. Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

The nature of the modern world is its interdependence. both people with each other across vast swaths of land and around the corner and across oceans and people with the Earth. But interdependence can be good or bad or both. Human nature being what it is, it's usually both. All interdependence means is that divorce is not an option. Divorce may be an option for two people, but you'll still be interdependent.

Just a few ideas that have ceased to be modern.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together. You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.