A great leader is almost always a great follower for he knows what to learn and from whom.

When a desire is deep, it reaches the subconscious mind and calls for cultivation of qualities that will help fulfill desires, and this is what transforms an ordinary person into a great leader.

Intellectuals are rarely successful as leaders. They are so trapped in their ideals that they cannot venture out in the real world to win and lead.

Leaders are usually a reflection of the people they lead. How can a leader be moral if his people are immoral?

Hatred is the emotional price leaders must pay for getting love and honour.

A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.

You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone.

Hatred is the price that society extracts from its leaders for the honour, power and wealth it bestows unto them.

Most people hate successful people for their small little faults rather than appreciating them for their great strengths.

Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.

I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.

When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

It's not that I'm racist or anything, because I'm not, but I just don't think we should be wasting our time helping people that are going to die soon anyway.