No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.