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The President in particular is very much a figurehead, he wields no real power whatsoever. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.

Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic'.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

You didn't come this far to only come this far.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

If Internet Explorer is brave enough to ask to be your default browser, you're brave enough to ask that girl out.

So avoid using the word 'very' because its lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you its just words.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.