Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

This is a movement like nobody's ever seen in this country before. Even our enemies admit that. We're going to make history together.

I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.