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.

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.

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.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.

Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.