If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.