Truthfulness is the golden thread that binds good lives, good relationships, and our very legacy.

Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.

Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.

Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.

Scout out competitors’ websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.

Approach the goal you’ve set with a positive, grateful attitude, and your perception about the goal and the journey will feel less like work, and more like fun.

The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results.

If you don’t know what your barriers are, it’s impossible to figure out how to tear them down.

Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.

Go a little easy on the people around you. Try to reel in judging thoughts. Think before you speak.

Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

I never leave the house without putting on my lipstick.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.