New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?

Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

I love it--I just love it.

Gratitude is a discipline, not an emotion.

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and speaks about Jihad has not even spent a minute in the battlefield.