Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.

Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.

Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

He told me that when we first met, he had said to a friend about me: “If I get that girl’s number I will never ask another girl for her number again.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

I'm not exactly certain what got into me, besides him.

I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, "I chose to do this part." A lot of times it's you're lucky to get the job. We're like, "Thank you so much."

The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

As I recognized the beauty of the earth, I knew that my Heavenly Father loved me.