qYour pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great

Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President of the United States.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

It's always a challenge to top what I have done in the past.

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before tens of millions of people.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.