“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.

You can’t get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.

All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Tis necessary for thee to learn all things, both the abiding essence of persuasive truth, and men’s opinions in which rests no true belief.

You can’t lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.