To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

It’s all biology. If it weren’t for two thousand years of the Christian tradition we wouldn’t think of pretending otherwise…Romance is the true opiate of the masses.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.

Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.

One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.