Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Henry Fielding

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Mahatma Gandhi

I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.

Wyclef Jean

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Margaret Cavendish

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

Jerry Coyne

The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.

Susan Waggoner

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

John Gray

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Dieter Rams

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

Gregory Maguire

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Paul Tillich