Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

Anyone who influences others is a leader.

You can really lead without a title.

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.

You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything.

You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance

He wasn't the first man she'd been with, and that hadn't been Bill back home either. It had been a boy she met on holiday when she was fifteen. She had decided it was time for her to have sex, the way someone else might decide it was time to get a driver's license, and she'd gone ahead with it. Pragmatic, that's the way she'd always been.

In their estimation Gillian was young and stupid and would get herself pregnant in record time—all the prerequisites for a miserable and ordinary life.

We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop fully, adulthood comes--if it is coming at all--at the age of fifty-two.

Selling yourself does not mean boasting about your accomplishments but rather demonstrating security in your goals and your lifestyle so your "customers" feel success and want to emulate it

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

When you're really young, you're young for life.