Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.

Expectations from others is your biggest weakness.

The bullies literally cram their will down the throats of those who are weaker.

I told him how winning never feels as good as losing feels bad and when he asked why, I told him that my wins were for someone else but my losses were all on me.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.

The whole white world is ours.

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.