The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.

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.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

I am a guardian of sorts.”- Liam (Marked Book #1) page 171

a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

I think that special relationship between the UK and the US has been an important part of security across the world particularly to the West.