Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters.

We don't have to take other people's behaviors as reflections of our self-worth. We don't have to be embarrassed if someone we love chooses to behave inappropriately. It's normal to react that way, but we don't have to continue to feel embarrassed and less than if someone else continues to behave inappropriately. Each person is responsible for his or her behavior.

He was the ultimate antiliberal: an authoritarian who was the living embodiment of resistance to authority.

Trump could bring Trumpism down...

Good management reduces ego. But in the Trump White House, it could often seem that nothing happened, that reality simply did not exist, if it did not happen in Trump's presence.

the Trump bubble. Trump was incapable of admitting vulnerability—any at all.

Confused to find that the power of the presidency had limitations, he came to see the limitations as his own

To have worked anywhere near him is to be confronted with the most extreme and disorienting behavior possible. That is hardly an overstatement. Not only is Trump not like other presidents, he is not like anyone most of us have ever known.

Trump, in a smart move, picked up his media reputation and relocated it from a hypercritical New York to a more value-free Hollywood, becoming the star of his own reality show, The Apprentice, and embracing a theory that would serve him well during his presidential campaign: in flyover country, there is no greater asset than celebrity. To be famous is to be loved—or at least fawned over.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.