It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. — Eric Hoffer. American moral and social conservative philosopher (1902–1983)
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.