Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table. Use this quote
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. Use this quote
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. Use this quote
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. Use this quote
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. Use this quote
In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Use this quote
I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face. Use this quote
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. Use this quote
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. Use this quote
I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength. Use this quote
At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly. Use this quote
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. Use this quote
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. Use this quote
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. Use this quote
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. Use this quote
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. Use this quote
I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward. Use this quote
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. Use this quote
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. Use this quote
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. Use this quote
