If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
The two most common reasons for losing are: not knowing you're competing in the
first place, and not knowing with whom you really are competing.
What I am experiencing at this moment is the result of choices and decisions made in the past; what I will experience in the future depends on choices and decisions I make now.
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
All war is based on deception.
We must use time creatively.
Live simply so that others may simply live. Its a nice idea, but our lives are more complicated and complex than ever. What can you simplify today - your desk, perhaps your thoughts, a meeting? Simple means easy. Simple means asking, "Is this really necessary?" Simple means keeping it short but sweet. Simple means keeping the focus of your attention on what you need to do now. Todays mantra is, "lets keep it simple."
Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I have.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
