What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?