Leadership is influence.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Dickens

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

Jodi Picoult

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

Taylor Swift

This is a typical journalistic statement: It is correct, but it is not the truth.

Helmut Kohl

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Benjamin Franklin

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

Terrell Davis

In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

Michael Nutter

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

Steven Wright

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Samuel Johnson

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Lucille Ball

She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.

Dudley Clendinen