followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone

Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.

What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.

He wrote: "A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way." Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true.

Let there be light, let there be life.

you’re ignoring me so loud that it’s deafening. This silence is so deep that it’s echoing.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.

It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

If it weren't for my adam's apple, I'd have no shape at all.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name