Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

The problem with nostalgia is what we tend to do is only remember what you like and you forget the parts you didn't like,

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.

I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, but you’re not sure I’m worth your time.

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.