The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.
I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good. Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information about whatever struck his curiosity. The Internet is to our age what Gutenberg's press was to his, so he would have loved being alive today.
I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure," she said, "I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.