The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man. – GILBERT CHESTERTON.

Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do – their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only ‘religious nut’ – his term for a believer – in his stable of regular reviewers.

It’s not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture’s most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

To “bear arms” is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

Term limits mean that you don’t trust the voters. ‘Stop me before I vote again.’

Leadership – mobilization toward a common goal.