You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first.
