One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

False leaders rarely engage succession planning for fear of no longer being seen as the leader.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.