Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.

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.

I hate feeling hate but feeling nothing feels worse.

The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way.

You might be a redneck if your dog can't watch you eat without gagging.

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.

All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.