I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude.

Although leadership and the exercise of power are distinguishable activities, they overlap and interweave in important ways. Consider a corporate chief executive officer who has the gift for inspiring and motivating people, who has vision, who lifts the spirits of employees with a resulting rise in productivity and quality of product, and a drop in turnover and absenteeism. That is leadership. But evidence emerges that the company is falling behind in the technology race. One day with the stroke of a pen the CEO increases the funds available to the research division. That is the exercise of power. The stroke of a pen could have been made by an executive with none of the qualities one associates with leadership.

John W. Gardner, On Leadership,

All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Rosa Luxemburg

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Alexander Pope

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

Vincent D'Onofrio

If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

Bobby Flay

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.

Reeva Steenkamp

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.

Noah Porter

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Benjamin Franklin