My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

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.

Pay your bills, yes. But don't invest in them. Invest in your dreams. What you invest in grows.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

Performing in front of my fans is what I love to do and I hope I get to do it forever.

It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.

Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.