We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for. . . unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable. . . We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.
The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.
Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
