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.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

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.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to be supplied is light, not heat.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.