Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

It's never the deviants who are the problem, puss. Don't forget that. It's the people who won't open their minds that are dangerous.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie

And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war.

They may not deserve forgiveness but I do.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure