‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’

‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.

‘I don’t much care where–‘ said Alice.

‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.

‘–so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation.

‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.’

“When we take a step or make a decision, we are tugging at webs of relationships that are seldom visible but always present.”

“Horatio Hornblower began to feel that life in the Navy, although it seemed to move from one crisis to another, was really one continuous crisis, that even while dealing with one emergency it was necessary to be making plans to deal with the next.”

“Another aspect of the leader’s difficult role is that there can be only one clear leader of the group, and that person must be willing to accept responsibility for the actions of all.”