Either you have dreams big enough to overcome your fears or you have fears big enough to overcome your dreams.

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.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great but because nothing is too small for Him either.

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another, or necessarily detrimental.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

I'm very frustrated by fear of imagination. I don't think that's healthy.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.