Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.

Love is richest, most genuine, and most long lasting when you focus on being yourself and doing everything you can to make it possible for the other person to be him- or herself.

The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't.

Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself.

You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year - who cares?

The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.