The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

Potential is universal, opportunity is not.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

SHUT UP!...PADDLE!

Entertain only those thoughts which bring health, vitality and happiness in your life. Start now and think right for you are the painter of the canvas of your life.

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.