No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.

If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don't have a clear vision, no strategy will save you.

You lose your way when you lose your why.

Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.

A goal is not just about what you accomplish. It’s about what you become.

You can't fail if you don't quit. You can't succeed if you don't start.

Leaders have the privilege and responsibility of going first. The most powerful way that anybody can lead is by example.

Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

Every day I’m convinced that I can’t possibly love you more… and every day I’m proven wrong.

When I was a child, I never imagined one day would come when humanity would fall.

He pries me from his chest and drops his hand from the back of my head, tracing my ear, along my jawline. He snatches his fingers a moment before they press into my lip.

Coffee is not about having something to drink in cool weather, it's about having something to drink when you are not sleeping

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.

That's what world leadership is: A willingness to point at bad guys and say they're the bad guys and to keep the bad guys from getting worse! That's leadership. Obama didn't want to go there.

Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.