Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

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.

What is necessary is what is needed.

I do not envy those who live a comfortable life.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.

Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).

I hear you. I just don't believe a word you say.

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.