We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.

Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt - by forgetting.

If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.