“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”
~ Herman Melville
“Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about [...]

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in eye and say, “I will
be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.”
I [...]

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything.  Both ways save us from thinking.
– Alfred Korzybski

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see.  Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere.  But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment.  And you can see forever.  –Nancy Lopez

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.  –Leo Buscaglia

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
–Mia Hamm

If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.  –Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.  We are all the same in this notion: the potential for greatness lives within each of us.
–Wilma Rudolph

No man, for any considerable period of time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the truth.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

If you think of yourself to be something, when you are nothing, you deceive yourself.