“Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality”

“It's as if I'm afloat in a sea of change. Each piece of wreckage to which I cling has limited buoyancy and soon sinks, forcing me to hold tightly to another and then another.”

“Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.”

“We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.”

“People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.”