Great leaders remove obstacles-including themselves.

You'll never be great at anything you're not passionate about.

Life is not "either or," it's "both and"

The secret to failing isn't failing; the secret to failing is failing forward.

If you don't live in your strengths, you'll die in your weaknesses. Do first and most what you're good at, and bring others along who are good at your weaknesses.

We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.

When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.

It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It’s definitely always a place that’s going to be very special to me.

Take 30 seconds to encourage everyone you meet today. Everyone. Be genuine and transparent. And do it. Then do it tomorrow. Repeat.

If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

..Breaking yet budding, dying yet living - standingamongst ruins and rage, reaching for possibilitiesplaying hard to get.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Love is rare and hard to find and takes years upon years to develop. Teenagers don't fall in love.

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.

He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.