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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.