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

Live not by expectation, but by inspiration.

Louise Philippe Dulay

Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning

Midrash

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Virginia Woolf

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true

Bertrand Russell

A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.

Stanley Kubrick

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.

William Allen Butler

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Linda Evans

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

Oscar Wilde

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Dave Matthews

I want a big church wedding.

Sienna Miller

A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.

Charles Darwin