I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

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.

Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

The most memorably photos are layered, in good light, and have something really ineresting going on in them. If you can get all three elements into a single frame, now you're talking.

I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It’s the most important achievement.

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?