"The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs."

"Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in."

"The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset."

"Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated."

"Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty."

"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all."

"I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare."

"Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor."

"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."

"He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun"

"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."