For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.

Think about what you think about is much more than a clever grouping of words. It’s largely the difference between maximized and unrealized potential.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.

We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.