Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal.

I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.