I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam its law and polity its culture its history and its literature.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character leadership creativity perseverance.

When the best leader's work is done the people say 'We did it ourselves.'

A leader is best when people barely know he exists when his work is done his aim fulfilled they will say: we did it ourselves.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth goodness beauty love and compassion and also intuition creativity insight and focused attention.

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

The art of leadership is saying no not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.