#ill

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#harder #leadership #life #still

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. ↗

— John McGahern

#alice #billy #book #called #charming

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody. ↗

— John McGahern

#attitude #compared #did #i #killing

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#convictions #even #kindness #made #many

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#allow #being #best #comfort #control

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#education #filling #minds #misconceptions #our

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it! ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#company #fear #hope #off #people

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#even #nothing #own #person #power

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#contradictory #find #full #however #i

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#channel #energy #i #just #people