It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. — Eric Hoffer. American moral and social conservative philosopher (1902–1983) Fear, Power
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.