I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

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.

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

We are all souls walking on the earth.

Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

You always want your significant other to think that you hung the moon, but when you're working in music you also want them to be honest with you.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.