“I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their ‘wisdom.’ I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.”

If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading.

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Your goal as a leader isn’t to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you’re not failing, you’re probably not really moving forward.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.

You add value to people when you value them.

Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.

People can open doors for you, but you must walk through.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.

He gave me a look at myself I’ve never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Facts are true whether or not you believe them.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.