It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.
My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.
You got to be brave and have courage, believe in yourself, because that is the first thing to success is believe in yourself.
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.
I am more convinced everyday that without a single exception I did right. And I have always believed that, as I have acted honestly, the time will come when the people of Canada will see and acknowledge it.
I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.
We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
When you coach and teach leadership, most people think about them. It's like you're the leader and how do you influence them. Clearly, leaders do take their followers, their flock, their enterprise, their business - whatever - hopefully to a better place. But I think the foundation of what makes really great leaders is they lead themselves, and they're conscious about knowing themselves and coaching and leading themselves in a very profound way. The simplest of us talk to ourselves. The question is, "Do we really lead ourselves?"
Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.
The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.