It's what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Everyday I think about the perfect life with you

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.

One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs' favourite politicians.

There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves.

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

Art thou a friend to Roderick?