Helping other people develops your leadership skills, and people start to see you as a natural leader.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.