I've long held the belief that as a leader, I can't ask of you something that I can't do myself, and I can't impose on you values that I don't live out.

The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.

It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it.

I must not expect everyone to act or think like I do as God has created each of us differently.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

I was at the birth of my two girls.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

I rest in the light of forgiveness.

Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.