Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

The shortest distance to leadership is service.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

Failure of success is not race-related; it's not socioeconomics-related; it is really predictable, based on principles that are laid down by God the Creator by which we are supposed to function. If we find them and obey them, success becomes inevitable. That's why I was able to move from rats to 40,000 feet in the air in my own aircraft.

The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra

The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.