The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

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.

The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.

Where she ended, he began.

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

If you want to buy something; it’s obviously in your best interest to convince the seller that what he’s got isn’t worth very much.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.

I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.