I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

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.

If you don’t make your choices, others will choose for you.

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

This country was founded with the understanding that we shall be allowed to hold slaves. It was a condition of the formation. That shall not change regardless of the rhetoric coming from the North.

Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves.

Life is a horizontal fall.

I've dealt with a lot of bullshit because of the way I look and a lot of misconceptions about what people should be afraid of.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

I don't like the term 'voice-over.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.