“A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.”

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.

We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.

There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

Everything comes down to how you perceive the world around you and how you choose to see things.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?

At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -“involuntary deprogramming” became the choice of some families as a last resort.

The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.

I love ‘Harry Potter’ and JK Rowling – don’t laugh at me!

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.