Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

J.K. Rowling

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

It is your belief that you are being held back that holds you back.

Steve Maraboli

IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt the need to hide it.

Stacia Kane

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Thomas Jefferson

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Marquis de la Grange

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Last week my tie caught on fire. Some guy tried to put it out with an ax!

Rodney Dangerfield

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth -- in short, materialism -- does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

E. F. [Ernst Friedrich] Schumach

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

Leona Lewis

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

Eric Liu