Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

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.

Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain

YOU CAN'T EXPECT A FULL TIME RELATIONSHIP FROM A PART TIME FRIEND.

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

In what is perhaps the strangest turn in the President's efforts to rally support, he agreed that Iraq is just like Vietnam, but in a good way.

I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?