The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

Julio Iglesias

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

William Hogarth

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Lee Iacocca

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

Jane Roberts

What shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.'

George Carlin

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Jonathan Sacks

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

George MacDonald

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

Ivor Novello

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Sophocles