15 Quotes by Henry H. Neff

A sudden realization flashed in her mind. No one else's opinion mattered.It was so simple, one of those things a consoling parent might say, and yet it contained a fundamental truth. The entire world could believe in Hazel's greatness but their faith was meaningless if she didn't believe it herself. Conversely, the world could dismiss her ambitions, but it didn't matter as long as Hazel believed in their possibility. Greatness not only started with her, it could not begin anywhere else.

And what is God? Tell me that, David Menlo." All David could do was offer a helpless shrug. "I don't know." "Does it frighten you not to know?" "It would frighten me more to think that God was something I could possibly define or understand.

Every student should know that statues are meant for sitting. If we're to endure their terrible old faces leering at us, the least they can do is offer shade or a comfortable perch." Nigel Bristow to Max McDaniels

You have the courage and will to overcome your fear and do what's required.

Sorry, Toby," said Max, plucking up the smee by one end. "This will have to do." He unceremoniously dunked the creature into a nearby pitcher of water. "Better?""Invigorated," groused the smee. "And now I will ask you to kindly put me down and never to grab me by that particular part of my anatomy again."Horrified, Max promptly dropped the smee onto its pillow.

Better for people to think you a fool, then to open your mouth and prove it.

Incomplete data leads to incomplete conclusions.

There are many kinds of leaders. Too often we confuse a forceful personality with leadership. This is a mistake. Those with different talents and styles can reach the same mountaintop; they just take different paths to get there.

Some people are born great, but no one is born good. That is a choice they must make for themselves.