Joel

“There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.”
― G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

“She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. In modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aims are always, we insist, quite practical. It is our practice that is dreamy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

“If there was one thing she had learned on this trip, it was that leadership was more than titles and giving orders. It was an act of becoming something greater than what one had been before; it was doing things for others, things that they could not do themselves. It was a burden, true, but it refined as much as it hurt.”
― Brandon Sanderson, White Sand

“In the struggle for survival, the cutest win out at the expense of the less cute because they appeal more to celebrities and, through them, to a live television audience.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations