For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

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.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

Exercising gives me endorphins and energy. I do it four days a week.

This present universe is the Kingdom of Heaven, and all we do is to clear away our misconception of it until we see It as It really is.