"Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach."

“I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room. My grandmother always told me, 'Manners will take you where money won't.' When I walk into a room, I say "hello" to everyone I don't care who the person is or what they do, it's simply being respectful.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net

“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”

“It became obvious that we had completely failed to impose rules on unbridled speculative capitalism. That destroyed financial systems, hollowed out state systems and deeply shook German social stability. Can you recall the debate about "locust" hedge funds - even if it's a terrible term. The speculator capitalists roamed the land, stealing the substance from companies and throwing away the shells. And we were powerless.”

“I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.”

“The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.”

“I am against the Islamisation of France.”

“All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”

Source : Saturday Evening Post, March 27, 1954.

“I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.”

Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.127