You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

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.

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.

Each of us is present, but partially.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

I do care about the direction of America.

Plastic Beach will be the last Gorillaz album ever released. You've heard it from medirect.

I'm not part of the Hollywood scene. I don't run around with 30 women. I have a very calm household. I'm surrounded by my grandkids and wonderful friends, and I consider myself very lucky.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.

It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.