The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.