In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.

Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.

Your first and foremost job as a LEADER is to take charge of your own energy.

We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure.

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.

What was that, Kylie? Just a thank-you for saving your life.. or was it more?

I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

Okayyyyy,” Isabelle said in a low voice, “When did Brother Zachariah get hot?

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.

he's probably never met a six-foot tall hot elf-women in a fur bikini either.

Break a leg up there, and I'll be down here hopefully breaking someone elses.

You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey. "One will do," said Magnus.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

You will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

No matter where you work or how you feel about the place, bless it with love.

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.

We must purposefully create a life of gratitude if we want to be fully alive.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

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