The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr. (American Lawyer)
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
—Nolan Bushnell (American Entrepreneur)
Getting old is not for sissies.
—Dero A. Saunders (American Editor)
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (French Woman of Letters)
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
—Helen Rowland (American Journalist)
Love’s for fools wise enough to take a chance.
—Amy Grant (American Singer-Songwriter)
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
—Charles Sumner (American Statesman)
The change we personally experience from time to time, we obstinately deny to our principles.
—Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann (Swiss Philosopher, Physician)
We must expect to fail… but fail in a learning posture, determined not to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
—Ted Engstrom (American Christian Leader)
For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious and selfish men.
—Ivo Andric (Yugoslav Novelist)
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
—Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian Writer)
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
—Francois Guizot (French Statesman)
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
—Samuel Butler (British Author)
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than it’s opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
—Quentin Crisp (English Actor, Artist)