“Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.”

“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.”

“Appear to be that which you desire to become. Be that which is more than your average sum.”

“The creative person is both more primitive & more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder & a lot saner, than the average person.”

“The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American...(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what's happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real.”

“Failure is no more than a mere challenge begging us to be better.”