In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive.
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting. What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.
Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.
Some men are like that - they get a woman in their mind, and that's that. They will destroy themselves and everyone else over her; they will let everything else fall apart.
They worried to an excessive degree about getting gender correct, as if elves gave a shit. Humans could keep their concerns about everyone’s genitalia to themselves.
if you fooled a person, don't think he or she is a fool... it means, they trusted you more than themselves...
When you can inspire others to dream, learn, evolve, and become one that they can appreciate and respect themselves; then you have arrived as a leader.
If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
