Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

Letting go isn’t about forgetting

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

Trust me: our critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack, to potential terrorist attack, and we are not taking this threat seriously enough.

You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

We die, because we live.

As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.