Leader leads people. Leader does not follow public opinion.

Leadership is about inspiring others to reach their full potential.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.

Leadership is about creating more leaders, not just followers.

Commitment to excellence sets great leaders apart.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

There, like the wind through woods in riot,
Through him the gale of life blew high;
The tree of man was never quiet:
Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I.

Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
Oh they’re taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man’s deceiver
Was never mine.

You must not treat my immortal works as quarries to be used at will by the various hacks whom you may employ to compile anthologies.

To think that two and two are four And neither five nor three The heart of man has long been sore And long ’tis like to be.

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

It is often our best friends who criticize us most severely.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

There is no joy so great as that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness

Always keep your mind that the very moment when your life may stifle you anyway, then it is the true sign that your life is actually not yours.

To share my experience I would just like to say that life at my age will just seem more or less just like a long march which will be like going to and from the lavatory.

I have always observed that we usually get at least some of the other reward for what we do, just like an appreciation.

When it comes to keeping up your appearance then, I feel that it is the most money intensive one.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.