The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.

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.

That's the point of words. They get around.

Happiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions.

Transgression is a quest for solitude

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.