Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

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.

Talent is never enough. Effort, not talent, is the key to success.

He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

Everyone has a purpose in life - even if yours is to go through it believing you don't have one!

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going to the hands of victims of predator priests.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.