"Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention."

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

“The will must be stronger than the skill.”

"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."

"Wait for them to become decadent and lazy." (Speaking of when is your enemy most vulnerable)

"When superiors and subordinates are in harmony, equally brave and enthusiastic in battle, that makes for strength."

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather....Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car...

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity!

"Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things.

It is easier to come up with a new idea than to let go of the old ones.

Let our worrying become advanced thinking and planning.

The hardest victory is the one over one's self.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

“In a world where the big things are overwhelming; it’s the little things that make the biggest difference.”

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."

One does not posses wealth who allows it to posses them.

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

Too many people spend money they don't have to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.

The most important things in life . . . aren't things at all.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

"It's easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success. Great leaders don't make excuses."

Most people add a page to their book of life as each day passes. Wise ones simply live out what they have written.

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."