“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.”

“If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.”

“The first key to leadership is self-control.”

“A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.”

“Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.”

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”

“He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself.”