A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
Elizabeth Bowen

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.
Reese Witherspoon

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
Bodhidharma

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Tony Blair

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.
Angela Merkel

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Henry A. Wallace

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
Layne Staley

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
George Santayana

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.
Hillary Clinton