Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.

What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation, and lead it in a way that keeps it together as a single nation and where all parts of the nation - Shia, Sunni and Kurds - are able to live free and in peace and believe that their interests are represented by the government.

I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.