We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." Ray Bradbury

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life-and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next." Dean Koontz

"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected." Charles Lamb

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them." John C. Maxwell

"The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones." Brandon Sanderson

"Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another." John C. Maxwell

"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out." Steve Jobs

"A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind." Nelson Mandela

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas." Margaret Thatcher

"A leader is a dealer in hope." Napoleon

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." Theodore Roosevelt

"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see." Henry David Thoreau