"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club...the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside.

My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

I can't tell people how much fun it is to be a super-villain. Being a villain is cool, but being a supervillain is a different level of exciting.

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.