Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.

The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

Character is contagious.

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

We largely become what we have observed and respected.

You are never wrong doing the right thing.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.

We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart. It changes your life. And that's what happened to me.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

I have learned that if this is what I am going to do, and do it well, then I have to avoid drinking.