Josh Hedgepeth

“Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“It is so often easy, when one has the luxury of being sure a thing will never happen, to be equally sure of one's answers.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou