True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Empedocles

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Scott Adams

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Sandra Boynton

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Desiderius Erasmus

But then I sigh, with a piece of ScriptureTell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

I don't even get an allowance.

Macaulay Culkin

To love--to fall--is not a question.To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

David Levithan

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety--all this rust of life--ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

Henry Ward Beecher

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Jessica Lange

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Caleb Colton

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Marcus Aurelius

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale