Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.

For one of the first pressures that bear down on American girls is the pressure not only to be liked but to be everyone else. This initial feat of self-transformation often involves loosening one's grip on that quiet sense of inner self and hitching one's wagon to a single standard of beauty. The stress of leaping through that hoop insinuates itself into the young heart and soul with a vengeance, and insecurities go from being hard little buds of confusion to overripe, snarled and tyrannical fruits that hang on the vine as we age.

Debra Ollivier

If you can consciously let yourself get taken and see where you go, that's an exercise. That's discipline. To follow the scent. Let yourself go and see what happens, that takes a bit of courage.

Bill Murray

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

Gary Neville

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Epicurus

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

George William Curtis

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

Lance Ito

If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.

Odetta, Spoken live live at a co

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Stanley Weiser

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Benjamin Franklin

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Robert Anton Wilson