You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

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.

Clarity and simplicity help us to build confidence keep things clear and keep them simple.

We all have a reason for living I am blessed mine has two eyes a heartbeat and calls me mum.

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

Those who write clearly have readers.

My days are gone a-wandering.

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience