People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance.

Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.

The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be.

One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.