Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Sam Nunn

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Ramana Maharshi

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Norman Vincent Peale

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Sir Walter Scott

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

John Updike, Quoted in Writers a

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Margaret J. Wheatley

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Simon Raven

The world, in truth, is a wedding.

Erving Goffman

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Zoroaster

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

American Indian Proverb, Iowa