“Leadership begins when you get out of the grandstands and into the game.”

“When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership”

“Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could be the fifth, it could be the thirty-fifth. We think about a chess game as beginning with move one and ending with checkmate. But this is not the case. The games begins when it gets out of book, and it end when it goes into book..And this is why Game 6 [between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue] didn't count...Tripping and falling into a well on your way to the field of battle is not the same thing as dying in it...Deep Blue is only itself out of book; prior to that it is nothing. Just the ghosts of the game itself.”

“Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it”

“The game, whatever it was, had to be played out. If the change of rooms had been the opening gambit, so much the better. The game had to begin somewhere.”

“Begin at the beginning," Miss Perkins urged. "And when you get to the end, stop.”