There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

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.

A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

May summer last a hundred years.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.

I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March