Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
—Dianne Feinstein (American Politician)
Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
—Paul Tillich (German-American Theologian)
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
—Ben Ames Williams (American Novelist)
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one’s work the tender and flushed substance of one’s dearest concern.
—M. C. Richards (American Poet)
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
—Robert A. Heinlein (American Science Fiction Writer)
For real winners there are no finish lines.
—Harvey Mackay (American Businessman)
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
—Janet Erskine Stuart (English Educator)
You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
—George W. Crane (American Psychologist)
When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
—Steven Wright (American Comedian)
I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one’s age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.
—Cyra McFadden (American Author)
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
—Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canadian Novelist, Children’s Writer)
We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
—Whoopi Goldberg (American Actress)
Babies are always more trouble than you thought – and more wonderful.
—Charles Osgood (American Broadcaster)