Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I like to work.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

I can dance to just about anything.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I am not a crook.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.