We can’t expect others to abandon their values any more than we would forsake our own.

Moral character is the DNA of success and happiness.

When you master the basics, and execute them well, there’s no need to worry about the score.

Courageous people know that saying ‘no’ to one idea enables them to say ‘yes’ to another.

Real leaders focus resources in areas that provide the greatest opportunity rather than making across-the-board decisions.

Fair-minded people earn the respect of their colleagues rather than demanding it.

Courageous people know that old ways of doing things shouldn’t stand in the way of a better solution.

Courageous people run toward the problem rather than away from it.

When you compete against yourself, you both win.

Sadly, some folks don’t live . . . they merely exist.

Trust takes a long time to develop, but can be lost in the blink of an eye.

If you think there’s a thing—anything—women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

Lets build a happy little cloud.Lets build some happy little trees.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war.

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.