A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

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

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism.

A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

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