When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace

Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

I like glamour. Not afraid of it.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual.