"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living." ― Eric Hoffer Topic(s): Death More From Eric Hoffer "Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership." "It pains me whenever there’s the death of a law enforcement official." "Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature." More In Death "How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."― George MacDonald "In this nation, leadership is dollars."― Norman Lear "My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching."― Twyla Tharp