Embracing change can be daunting, but it is our willingness to do better that makes it worthwhile.

Don't play the victim role, empower yourself instead. Place yourself and others around you in a position to win.

To fail is to not try at all.

If your actions don't excite, motivate or inspire others to do better, you're doing it wrong.

To give power to that which has no bearing on one's life simply means one is not living their true life.

Poisonous people will try to destroy you when they recognize your power this is because they fear what you might become.

Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first.

Never hesitate to remove yourself from individuals or situations that threaten your peace of mind.

A comfortable and easy life leaves no room for growth. We must therefore embrace our hardships and the lessons they bring.

Your influence on others is your net worth, treat it as such.

In the vast world of supreme worriorship, courage is what separates one from the crowd.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

That mountain of courage I had been building inside me for the past several months began crumbling, tumbling down, and gaining speed like an avalanche.

At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.

The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

People are not their behaviors.

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.