Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

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.

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

England is one of my favorite places. The fans are just so crazy.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.