With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.