We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.