If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

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.

Maybe some type of pain is inevitable, but still, that doesn’t mean that you should always let it control your emotions.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.