I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

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.

Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.

Our thoughts and perceptions are our god.Our true inner awareness is the purest temple, where I worship every day for the divine.

Work with "what is" rather than "what if" and you will move towards "what can be.

America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.

Ladies and gentlemen, you can't please everyone. Take my girlfriend - I think she's the most remarkable woman in the world. . . . That's me . . . But to my wife . . .

memories fall apart too.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.