We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

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.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'

A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement.

I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

All of Scripture is for us but not all of Scripture is to us.

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.