Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

Jonathan Sacks

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Henry David Thoreau

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

Simon Mainwaring

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.

Susan Wiggs

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Japanese Proverb

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Lillian Smith

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

William Penn

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

William Osler

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Rudyard Kipling

Potential has a shelf life.

Margaret Atwood