People who succeed speak well of themselves to themselves.

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.

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

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.

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.

In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

When your passions and desires align you cannot hold them back.

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you'll know everything about them.

restraint equals indulgence

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.