Experts often possess more data than judgment.

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.

If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

It's an unexplainable feeling, an expression. It's a touch, it's a feel. Once you feel it, it's like no other thing in the world.

A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.

Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.