A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

what is the use of a book, ' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable, ' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable so with autobiography.

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.

I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one.

I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws