I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

Children are everything we could have been.

All the great pleasures in life are silent.

Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

Fitness to me isn't about a crunch or a push up, it's about taking your power back.