Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Never complain and never explain.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
After a storm comes a calm.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.