My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

Nobody wins until we all do.

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.

Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.

Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

It takes people some time to appreciate that their greater resources are often the people they know.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.

I can still kick your pony-lovin' butt with twice this much pain."Thomas shrugged, "I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.

A hundred times I must have thought of ways to take it back, but I wasn't smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strenght, not weakness (...)

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.

I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.

I've been truly protected by my uncles.