The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Warren Bennis

She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts.

Virginia Woolf

Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid.

Patricia Alexander, Book of Comf

History passes the final judgment.

Sidney Poitier

A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.

Samuel Johnson

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Fran Lebowitz

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess

Walter Savage Landor

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

Chris Hayes

Music is the language of memory

Jodi Picoult

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Charles Kingsley