The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

Cassandra Clare

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

George Eliot

The thing was, the places of your life, like the clothes you wore and the car you drove and the friends and associates you had, were a product of the way you lived.

J.R. Ward

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

James Randolph Adams

The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.

Mark Twain

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Horace

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Arthur Miller

In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a read, commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.

Joseph Brodsky

Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous

Ambrose Bierce

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Voltaire

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

Donald Cargill

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Blaine Lee, The Power Principle