Knowledge may be power, but not without the willingness, and the release from inhibiting mind-sets, to use that knowledge.

Rabbi Heschel replied: “I would say: Let them remember that there is a meaning beyond absurdity. Let them be sure that every little deed counts, that every word has power, and that we can – every one – do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments. And above all, remember that the meaning of life is to build a life as if it were a work of art.

I hold that hope, thus defined, is absolutely essential to both sanity and wholeness of life.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee.

The servant-leader is servant first, it begins with a natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first, as opposed to, wanting power, influence, fame, or wealth.

Don’t assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

Listening, coupled with regular periods of reflection, are essential to the growth of the servant-leader.

A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader’s path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person’s effort or performance as good enough.

The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first...