"We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive."

“Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.”

“What is an angel? The two words that come closest to a true biblical answer are "manifestation" and "servant".”

“People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Apr 24, 2013

“Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.”

“It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.”

“As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”

Source : George Chapman, Hesiod, Musaeus (Grammaticus.), Juvenal (1858). “Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams”, p.135

“...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.92, The Book Foundation

“Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.”