I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

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.

Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.

Pick a mentor. The role of a mentor is to monitor your movements. When you desire to move the positive way and you connect with someone who thinks the negative way, you can’t get there!

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping.

If we don’t know who we are, we’ll never know how we ought to live.

Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to discover any others.

All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.