Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.

While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.

People get emails from me at 3 in the morning.

Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.

Science is not inherently good.

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.