"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman." ― Ludwig van Beethoven Topic(s): Leadership More From Ludwig van Beethoven "Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience." "Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken." "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." More In Leadership "At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn’t always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them."― Rose McGowan "When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy."― Gennaro Angiulo "Those who remember Washington’s cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan’s intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva – alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! – with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev."― Russell Baker