I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's a compulsion.

Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence

But the book! The siren song of the book!

There is a great potential in everyone.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

Michelle Obama - they don't call her Mooch-elle for nothing.

You give the money where you want it.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.