We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

Radicalism was thriving among all groups except the Catholics. I felt out of it all. There was Catholic membership in all these groups of course, but no Catholic leadership.

God helps watchmen by pointing out what needs to be seen and heard to aid the growth and health of a church.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.