“I love it when people say that something can’t be done. That’s when I really get motivated; I like to prove them wrong.”

“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible - I really do have to agree!”

“There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.”

“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened

“By stepping outside your comfort zone to do something peculiar, you confirm that you can do more than you've done. Move out!”

“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 

“There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn’t.”

“leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.”

“We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.”

“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there

“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.”

“If you make it your discipline to do a little bit of growing every day, in just a few years you will be amazed by your transformation.”

“The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.”