I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
The secret is that there is no secret.
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain. . . . Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life. . . the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?
Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family.