Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

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.

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

Don’t calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don’t stop to do calculation, just keep on moving.

It's so easy to laughIt's so easy to hateIt takes guts to be gentle and kind

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.