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.

My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used.

Kristin Cashore

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Dorothy Parker

Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.

Geis, R.

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

Keith Richards

The happy ending is our national belief.

Mary McCarthy

The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a play about Beckett which was made into a film in the 1960???s. In the film Richard Burton played the lead role of the archbishop of Canterbury. Now Beckett was before his calling a libertine, and w

Samuel Johnson

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Denis Waitley

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Angela Carter

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

Confucius

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

Lewis Mumford

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

Mick Cornett