Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.

Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.

I just want to help people become winners. That's what I'm about. I'm about winning.

I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.

I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing.

You see, I’m a juggler with words myself.

The person who offends, and the person who has been offended and awaiting for a revenge have one thing in common: the real uncertainties of tomorrow is truly uncertain to both of them.

Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion

This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.