The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading.

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.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise.

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.

Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

You are all angels, you guys know that right?

Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?