I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them. – Garry Wills
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers… Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership. – Garry Wills
There’s an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn’t something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don’t toe the line on abstract doctrine you can’t be part of the Church. – Garry Wills
I don’t really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require. – Garry Wills
I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one… It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life. – Garry Wills
