To lead, you must first be willing to serve.

Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.

The public’s evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

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.

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.

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.

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 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

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life

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

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.

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

I always believe and would also like to tell you that the actual joy of the mysteries is always a certainty, the one which truly always comes or is derived from its actual contemplation.

I feel every person is different with different attitudes I am the kind of person who always takes sympathy just like a normal one.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth

I don’t even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

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

He really started out unbelievably to lead 4-1, but I knew that my shots were going too short and that I had to start hitting deeper. From then on I think I returned well, had some good passing shots.

Baseball is a journey of a thousand steps, each one as important as the last

In baseball, there’s no such thing as an insurmountable lead or an impossible comeback

The true beauty of baseball is found in its traditions, from the seventh-inning stretch to the crack of the bat

Baseball is a mirror of life, reflecting our triumphs and failures.

There’s nothing quite like the sound of a baseball hitting a wooden bat

The game begins when you step into the ballpark, and it never really ends.

Baseball has experienced and ingested an entire arrangement of disengagements.

There’s nothing awful that comes from baseball

Captaincy is a responsibility that I take seriously, and always try to lead by example.

There are many individuals who know me who can’t comprehend for the life of them why I would find a good pace in something as unserious as baseball. If they just knew

On issues of race, on issues of goodness, baseball should lead the way

It’s not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

A writer’s task is to capture the essence of a moment, to freeze time in the pages of a book

When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

God makes us ask ourselves questions most often when He intends to resolve them. He gives us needs that He alone can satisfy, and awakens capacities that He means to fulfill. Any perplexity is liable to be a spiritual gestation, leading to a new birth and a mystical regeneration.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.

Derringer, who invented the gun that killed Lincoln, made as much money in lawsuits as he did selling guns

But they also confuse two distinct occupations: cooks and chefs. Cooks do it at home for love. Chefs do it in public for money. Dinner parties are karaoke cheffery.

The Swiss—also a federation of semi-independent states—are even more attached to their guns than Texans, and they have a greater number per capita, but death by shooting is so rare they don’t even collate the figures

The first lift shaft was built four years before the first lift. In 1852 Peter Cooper was constructing the Cooper Union building in New York with an elevator shaft, in the sure and certain knowledge that if he built it, the lift would come. That isn’t an act of impatience, it’s an act of faith, and it is, archetypally, the act of an American.

There is a theory that bravery and intrepidness and extreme risk taking are all sorts of madness, and that only one person in 1,000 or 100,000 is born without the normal safety rail of self-preservation, the pressing need to turn around and go home when it’s dark, cold and frightening.

Europe is, for the most part, a hugger-mugger continent that works best on the consensus of inertia and precedent. Those who have dogmatic and contrarian beliefs can cause disproportionate ructions and ripples in our overcrowded and hierarchical communities

The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance

Lead from a place of compassion and forgiveness.

I step back and let the Universe lead the way.

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us… It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constseseantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man’s greatest efforts.

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

I was your man and you were my girl It was you and me against the world

Tryna live on more than what I got ‘Cause ’68 cents ain’t gonna pay the rent So I’ll be out here ’til they call the cops

You said you loved me, you’re a liar ‘Cause you never, ever, ever did, baby

The ladies love the luxury That’s why they all fu*k with me

The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. how much people respect you determines how well they perform.

Of course it’s good when you win the Champions League, the league, the golden boot. But when you win something for your country it’s completely different.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

I am not a big crier. But I’d say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I’d say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

O woman’s counsel is so often cold! A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, Made Adam out of Paradise to go Where he had been so merry, so well at ease.

People don’t know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!

My job is to lead.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

To ”speak of a man as you find him” when he can’t find you

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it

They’re all gonna laugh at you

To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.