Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Max de Pree

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

H. L. Mencken

Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.

Norman Vincent Peale

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Quentin Crisp

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

Bill Keller

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Yoko Ono

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Xun Zi

I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.

Rebecca Romijn

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Jodi Picoult

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Leo Buscaglia