Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

We must be constantly aware that Satan can take any human effort and twist it to serve his own purposes.

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.