"Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness."

“Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.”

Source : Toast at dinner, Norfolk, Va., Apr. 1816. This wording is quoted in Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Life of Stephen Decatur (1848). According to Respectfully Quoted, ed. Suzy Platt, "Niles' Weekly Register, published in Baltimore, Maryland, gave a slightly different version in its April 20, 1816, issue (p. 136). A number of the toasts at the dinner for Decatur were included, probably reprinted from a Virginia newspaper, and Decatur's appeared as 'Our country - In her intercourse with foreign nation

“You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing the triangle offense.”

“Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.”

“America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.”

“On the other side of resistance is the flow.”

“Its not over, until the Lord says its over.”

“In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.”

“You don't need anything but your own two legs to run. You don't even need shoes, according to some people.”