Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.

Fight only after creating conditions for victory.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

Be a leader, not a superior.

Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing

Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.

Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.

Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

Monday: New Week

We can’t undo an action, but we can redo or change our perception.

Jonah’s anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing preoccupation with the events in his own life.

Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.

You can get away with anything as long as it works.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.